PHILOS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Loaded Question
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Do these questions have any objectively correct answers. If so, how? (are moral judgments the kinds of things that can be true or false?) Happiness is not experiencing pleas- ant sensations, nor having wealth or power. Happiness consists in exercising those capacities that have to do with rationality. The moral virtues are the ex- cellences of human nature that have to do with rationality. There are objectively correct answers to moral questions. Hobbes: we seek to stay alive and not die a violent death at the hands of other human beings. Has moral rules, those are the rules you need to follow if you have any expectation of survival. Doesn"t make sense to say we ought to live in any particular way. Nevertheless, it is a true fact about humans that they tend to desire things (like their own survival). Takes the desire as given, and shows what actions are going to promote that desire.
