PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dogma, Unit, Kantianism
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Week 8 lecture #14: thursday february 25, 2016. Unit 2: challenges to morality - morality and science. -> all (acc. to sl) support being moral objectivists. Whether or not we believe in god, we should reject the idea that ethics is objective only if. God and morality: three options: god doesn"t exist, god exists and is the author of morality, god exists and is not the author of morality. - each of these options is compatible with morality being objective. If some entity or principle is not necessary to explain things that occur in the world, then we have no reason to believe that the entity exists or that the principle is true. Because we can explain everything that happens in the world without them. P1) occam"s razor: we should believe that something exists only if we cannot explain what happens in the world without it.
