PP247 Lecture 2: Week 1
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Philosophical ethics is more than a study of the conventions and mores of society. It is normative and concerned with justification rather than merely descriptive. What is legal is not necessarily ethical. The law generally prescribes only a moral minimum. The realm of good conduct and character goes beyond what is. Laws may be immoral or mistaken, and are subject to ethical. Some have equated morality with obedience to an objective legally required criticism moral law as a law-giver physical laws. This metaphor owes a lot to the judeo-christian concept of god. Some want to see morality as objective in the same sense as. Weakness of the idea of moral law without a law-giver. Is the pious loved by the gods because it pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods : is the good (morality) commanded by god because it is.
