GINS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deontological Ethics, Jeremy Bentham, Discourse Ethics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 2010
• Professor: Pablo Heinrich

Document Summary

Two types of approaches to morality: rationalist moral theories ( philosophical" ethics, beyond rationalism ( critical" ethics) These are types of moral theories that you are most likely to encounter in an ethics". They are theories that first rose to prominence in europe in the seventeenth and philosophy course eighteenth centuries, and which have been most influential in shaping debates in. First, for all 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. Second, for all of them, the foundations of ethics can be discovered and explained through the exercise of reason by the ethical theorist, in abstraction from the contexts and concerns of actual ethical debates. Universal rules and principles work according to a set of rules or principles. In addition, most rationalist moral theories are also universalist theories.