PHIL224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Divine Command Theory, Moral Relativism, Western Philosophy
18 Mar 2016
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Three problems with moral relaivism (all moral claims are relaive) A good moral argument has: empirically accurate statements (descripive, compelling moral claims (narraive, good reasoning, useful conclusion. Divine command theory (earliest approach): what the powerful god commands is the right thing to do. These problems push people to ind the source of morality, what the right thing to do is and how to ind it. Natural low theory (aristotle 4th century bc to saint thomas aquinas 13th century ad) Aristotle (a student of plato and socrates) tries to answer the quesion of what is the moral law by iguring out the nature of the living world. He suggested that things are what they are due to four causes. Eicient (how the thing came to have that shape) The combinaion of the three souls lead one to become the type of person that they are. Virtue: the fulillment of the telos (the needs of the soul)
