PHILOS 2N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethics In Religion, Normative Ethics, Meta-Ethics
3 Jan 2017
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Ethics (what is helpful and harmful) vs meta-ethics (where to begin looking for and what counts as ethical position) No universally true or proper set of ethical beliefs. Rather, what counts as a good ethical decision is determined by the convictions of the person making the decision, or the culture which they belong to. All of different moral attitudes are of equal moral merit. It violates the insight that certain things really are just plain wrong. It precludes the idea of ethical improvement: there"s just ethical change. One set of universally true and proper ethical beliefs. These beliefs can be identified through the proper use of the human intellect. ^ usually how people think- our reasoning is absolutely right e. g. music taste, ethical issues such as abortion. Absolutists think that if we think hard enough, we can think of rules that are true for everyone anywhere. Will not think that all morally equal.
