PHIL 0450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Patron Saint, Expressivism, Ethics
26 Jul 2016
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When we pay closer attention we are overcoming these habits of mind we have to overcome internal hurdles. To murdoch we have a faulty conception of freedom: we need to rethink freedom. Get over the idea that our will is not controlled by some authority outside of us. Model of the mind ethical thinking is in two stages: getting information and the facts value neutral facts, doing something about that information. To be doers we have to have a will to take a stand toward the information we gather about the world. We see the moral quality of things. They are no intrinsic: david hume patron saint of expressivism. The mind projects its own mode of thinking on the world: moral philosophy cannot avoid taking sides murdoch. Ethics philosophical study of what is good, bad, right, wrong. Meta-ethics what we mean when we use terms such as good, bad, right, and wrong.
