PHIL110B Lecture Notes - Anti-Abortion Movements, John Stuart Mill, Commodity Fetishism
7 Apr 2014
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Monday, wednesday, september 9 & 11: dilemma, choice, values, rights, morals, wrong, benefit, compliance. Varieties of ethics: descriptive, normative *focus, applied/practical (animal ethics, abortion, etc, meta-ethics. Intention: to save 5, whereby knowingly killing one: doctrine double effect: passive vs. active, passion vs. action, patient vs. actor. More generally, what is philosophy: question: what is ethics, there are many ways to think about it, method (conceptual analysis; argumentation, subject matter, intellectual attitude , canon of texts. Conceptual analysis: understanding a concept in relation to other concepts (analyzing concepts, definitions, what is justice form, concept, universal , breaking things down into their (conceptual) parts, understanding complexes in light of more simple concepts, e. g. A bachelor (the concept) is an unmarried human male adult : justice is the advantage of the stronger , the good is what is pleasurable . Argument and argumentation: maybe even more central to philosophy than conceptual analysis.
