PHIL 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethical Subjectivism, Emotivism, Eurocentrism
12 Apr 2017
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Phil 2120 unit 2 subjectivism in ethics september 28th 2016. For this course, when referring to relativism, use the term ethical subjectivism. Notice that in rachels and rachels there is never negative examples used of western society, this is very eurocentric. Key features: moral opinions are important, and they are based in feelings. Such as wearing a headscarf would suck . The view states that living beings have feelings, some of those feelings attached to ideas or things are very strong. When one has a strong feeling, and moves that feeling into a judgement about right or wrong, an ethical subjectivist would say that is an intrinsic value, comes from within. What can you do with that perspective, what does it tell you about a situation: apply the perspective to interpret or better understand, and even take a position on the matter. Criticize the theory: look for limitation, watch for fallacies. Chapter 3 --- subjectivism in ethics -- readings.
