PHIL215 Lecture Notes - Cardinal Virtues, Deontological Ethics, Immanuel Kant
7 Oct 2013
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Ethics is the broadest term when we think about the values and ideals that apply to our actions. Ethics: how you should live your life? (a set of ideal, general question) Nested within the definition of ethics is morality. Morality: how you should treat other people? (the narrower question, the moral question) Narrower and nested within the moral question is the question of justice. How to treat each other, social institution impact how we should treat people is justice. Justice: how should social institutions be shaped, social institutions: Early primary education influences how we treat people. Some people want to include it, some don"t. Determines how you live and if you live. Definition: telos + logos, logos means the study of or the inquiry into. Biology: the study of life, of living things. Psychology: an inquiry into the human mind: telos is the greek word for goal, end, purpose, teleology: an inquiry into purpose.
