PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Relativism
24 Oct 2016
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Descriptive: the study of people"s ethical beliefs. Normative: tries to determine what actions we should take and attempts to identify, justify, and apply ethical judgments to the world we live in. Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk and practice. How might moral facts be related to other facts (about psychology, happiness, human conventions, etc. ) Plato examines the claim that all moral knowledge about what is right and wrong comes from god. Socrates was concerned about this and needed to know where our morals come from. Zeus slept with a human woman and had a demi god son. He cheats on his wife and treats his son like shit. We have all of these gods that are always fighting and going against morals. 2000 years later we are still searching for where morals come from. This is a problem for other knowledge as well: religious beliefs, mathematical.
