PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Aphorism, Genetic Fallacy, Deontological Ethics
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Changing vision through language-n proceeds by aphorism not argument. Skeptical: n thinks all philosophers take too much for granted. Holds nothing sacred: n thinks not even goodness or truth is sacred. Sometimes the aphorisms are just throw away insults: the english this the jews . The germans : you can usually ignore these drive-by invectives. The "nobles" have two contracts: "slave", "priests" But we needn"t assume that nietzsche actually takes sides with the "nobles" more than the priests. Our notions of what is right and wrong represent an inversion of the original meaning of good and bad. Story of how something came to be. We have seen 3 kinds of foundationalism: teleological (aristotle: what"s intended by nature, rational (kant: deontology a priori, consequentialist (mill: pleasure and absence of pain) But in hume we saw that one can evade the question of justification and ask instead what we do. Origins are sometimes used to support a claim: o.
