GINS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Western Philosophy, Postcolonialism, Jeremy Bentham

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 2000
• Professor: Fiona Robinson

Document Summary

These theories are important to know and understand as we move on to look at issues and topics in global ethics. They are also important for your final research reports, where you will be required to use ethical theories in order to analyze the ethical dimensions of a particular issue. Two types of approaches to morality: rationalist moral theories, beyond rationalism. These a(cid:396)e the t(cid:455)pes of (cid:373)o(cid:396)al theo(cid:396)ies that (cid:455)ou a(cid:396)e (cid:373)ost likel(cid:455) to e(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)te(cid:396) i(cid:374) a(cid:374) (cid:858)ethi(cid:272)s(cid:859) philosoph(cid:455) course. They are theories that first rose to prominence in europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and which have been most influential in shaping debates in global ethics. First, all of these theories, different forms of rationality play an important part in providing the basis for the authority of their ethical claims, and for differentiating ethical claims from the claims of pure self- interest or subjective feeling.