PHL275H1 Lecture : PHL275 Lecture Notes.pdf
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Course requirements: tutorial participation (10%), 2 critical summaries 800 words each (15%), and a final exam (30%) Turn it in - class id 5242121, enrollment pass: ethics999. The term ethics in a philosophical context could the investigation of any number of topics: What duties do we have to the poor? etc. Think of ethics as the practice of trying to convince yourself and others of the truth or acceptability of ethical beliefs and practices - our focus will be giving arguments. Challenges to ethics - in the next class we"ll look at 2 challenges to the practice of doing ethics: psychological egoism, moral relativism. Descriptive: make factual claims about the way the world is - i. e. the ice is thin or julia is selfish. Normative: make claims about the way the world ought to be: the ice is thin, so you shouldn"t step on it or julia ought to be less selfish.
