PHIL 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Transitive Verb, Consequentialism, Port Wine

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 230
• Professor: Sarah Stroud

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Lectures: moore"s aims and method: clarifying the central questions of ethics (preface, ch. Clarify what it is that ethics investigates, regiment what the questions we are investigating, what are different concepts we are probing. Moore thinks that confusion in philosophy exists largely because of lack of clarity about what issues we are investigating. What kind of evidence should be given to these questions: first question: the most basic ones, no relevant evidence, second question: must provide two kinds of evidence, casual truths, ethical truth, moore offers his own answers. If there is a dispute on this problem, we have to use method b first. We have to clarify the quality of good before we can give a list: the definition of good (chs. I, ii: good as indefinable, we can say nothing informative of good . It is impossible of offer a definition of good. Any attempt to do that will be false.