PHIL 1550 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - metaethics; the status of morality
10 Feb 2017
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Most famous for the critique of pure reason. Lecture 5: consider the maxim: kill anyone who damages your lawn, this seems universalizable. But it would be wrong to act on it: *there must be more to universalizability than maxims. Conclusions: kantian deontology is concerned w/ intent, not consequences, humanity principle is applied to individuals who can reason & are autonomous, animals are not included in kant"s model, unlike consequentialism, kant"s model is not context-dependent. Ethical objectivism: the view that some moral standards are objectively correct & that some moral claims are objectively true. Moral skepticism: the denial of ethical objectivism; 2 forms . Friday, january 23, 2015: moral nihilism: no moral truths at all. Lecture 5: ethical relativism: some moral truths, but they are relative to a person/society, ethical subjectivism: an act is morally acceptable just b/c (i) i approve of it, or (ii) my commitments allow it.
