PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Normative Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Descriptive Ethics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Gervais Yamb Desire

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The study of morality using the methodology science. Its purpose is to investigate the empirical facts of morality (the actual beliefs, behaviors, and pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es that (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitute people"s (cid:373)oral e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (vaughn, p. 4). Uses scientific techniques to study how people reason and act. A(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to vaugh(cid:374), (cid:373)etaethi(cid:272)s (cid:862)is the stud(cid:455) of the meaning and justification of basic moral beliefs. They appear as general binding standards of action . Examples: 1- do not kill; 2-do not steal . (cid:894)beau(cid:272)ha(cid:373)p & childress, p. (cid:1007)(cid:895): standards and rules of common morality (i) nonmalevolence (ii) honesty (iii) integrity (beauchamp & childress, p. 3). Framework of moral norms: the moral norms derive from the common morality, though they certainly do not exhaust the common morality. Midterm: section i: concepts, normative ethics, non-normative ethics, metaethics, morality. Stud(cid:455), people"s (cid:373)oral, principles, judgments: section ii: essay (i) the objective of non-normative ethics is to establish what factually is the case not what ethically out to be the case .