PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Naturalistic Fallacy, Normative Ethics, Descriptive Ethics
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You (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t escape ethics, its in our lives. Moral principals conflict each other, guessing is the way to figure out if something is ethical, this is similar to trial and error (test your guess). Critical thought religion: strange and new moral dilemma that previous generations would not have to face. You have to be able to defend your views, it will always face criticism. Descriptive ethics: a des(cid:272)riptio(cid:374) of the (cid:449)a(cid:455) the (cid:449)orld is it"s a list of fa(cid:272)ts its e(cid:373)piri(cid:272)al (empirical: means scientific study) looking seeing and measuring. People like anthropologists tell the fa(cid:272)ts it"s a si(cid:373)ple des(cid:272)riptio(cid:374); there is no moral judgement. its about facts. Prescriptive: not about what they actually believe but what they should believe: this is called normative but professor will use prescriptive. Is / ought fallacy: you ca(cid:374)"t derive the ought fro(cid:373) the is.
