PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Divine Command Theory, Maryam Namazie, Female Genital Mutilation
23 Nov 2017
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Morality= our beliefs about right and wrong actions and good or bad character. Ethics = (or moral philosophy) = rational reflection and study of morality. Moral theory (ethical theory) = a theory that explains why an action is right or wrong and why a person is good or bad. Pull: one should save as many lives as possible. Not pull: one should never cause the death of someone innocent. These 2 ideas function as basic moral principles- fundamental beliefs which define right and wrong. Moral theory: a theory that explains why an action is right or wrong. The right/moral thing to do depends on the consequence of that action. Various types of utilitarianism differ in how they. The good= minimizing pain and maximizing pleasure (hedonism) Deontology: (immanuel kant)- moral theory in which the rightness/wrongness of an act is determined by the intrinsic nature of the act itself. Irrespective of the consequences: such as production of happiness or satisfaction of desire.
