PHIL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vehicle Identification Number, Eudaimonia, Cardinal Virtues
10 Oct 2017
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Introduction to ethical theories, new and old / the roles of history and theory. For plato he questions that if you are to become a philosopher that does permit you to restore the vision of another man. Greek and roman society: various kinds of attitudes and viewpoints, philosophers wrote religion as a way to explain ethics because they had a new way of seeing ethics. , people tended to be negative, and it was divine base command: socrates, plato where searching for a higher truth. But they told young people how to look wise and how to manipulate others to win arguments. As a result they might have been called sophist but they do not have the wisdom with no intrinsic value used for pragmatic purposes: divine is fine but command not the best bases for shared moral discussions. If you believe in the divine no one can agree on what they commands are.
