PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Epicurus, Egotism, Consequentialism
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Views in empirical psychology that involve claims about the. 1. a. i. 2. way of the pursuit of pleasure or avoidance of pain. Views that involve the claim that we are motivated only by the. Views that explain what in fact makes us pursue anything. Views in philosophy that involve about what things in the world. Views that involve the claims that the only things in the world that are valuable is the experience of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. Views that explain what we should be pursuing. What is the scope of correctness of an ind action? (what is the good?) Total amount of pleasure over pain in the world. Moral claims are, in principle empirically testable i. e. does not depend on anyone"s opinion or social mores. A determinate method for testing moral claims and arriving at moral truths. An impartial or agent neutral account of moral good. What is goof for us as an end is pleasure.
