PHL 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Development
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Account for our core moral convictions, (eg. justice is important); explanatory power. Avoid free-rider problem / account for civic duties. Have determinate implications for how to act in a difficult situation (needs a decision procedure) Duty of self-development in terms of knowledge and virtue. Duty of beneficence (not a duty of benevolence) To help others in terms of knowledge, virtue and pleasure. Increase people"s" pleasure tes good consequences (emotions attached to virtues) You help because you care, not because it crea. Not harming in terms of knowledge and virtue and pain. All of these are forces on the particular situation but there are cases of conflict. In physics, there are forces moving on an object, so it"s a combination of forces that depends on how the object moves. Enlightened self interest vs. morality / duty. Intuition things that seem right or wrong. Intuited truths self-evident (each number is the value of itself)