PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ronald Dworkin, Morality
26 Jan 2015
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Drugs are dangerous! : dworkin agrees that the legislature should respect the moral positions of the community, but, moral position can mean two different things here! a. b. Anthropological sense: p is a moral position in the descriptive or anthropological sense when p reflects, whatever attitudes the groups displays about the propriety (of) human conduct, qualities or goals , p does not automatically demand respect. Discriminatory sense: p is a moral position in the discriminatory sense when p passes muster i. e. , is a genuine moral position. It must satisfy some of the basic ground rule(s) of moral reasoning. : p demands some basic respect. When does a position count as discriminatory : you must have reasons for you position. Dworkin"s response: only moral positions in the discriminatory sense should be accepted as a basis for a legislator"s duty to respect the moral positions of the community.
