PHI 1370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paternalism, Ethical Dilemma, Habituation
22 Mar 2016
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Morals: refers to the values and associated rules and practices by which people live. Ethics: branch of moral philosophy, concerned with the study of morality. Caring as respect for the perspective of others. May be difficult for others to register objections. Leap from aristotle to hume, went from logic and reasoning to an empirical approach. No absolute rights and wrongs about moral debate. Moral virtues are acquired by practice and habituation. Theory-practice gap is the idea that a theory in fine all good until it is applied in practice and then the gap in encountered. Moral dilemma = a situation with no clear solution moral principle is compromised of the solution to a moral dilemma. Aristotle: trained as biologist, son of a doctor, the qualities that make us human were shown in outthinking, our associations with each other, and our functions as members of the natural order .
