PHIL 0450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Naturalistic Fallacy, Stuart Hampshire, Expressivism
26 Jul 2016
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Moore principia ethica (1903: naturalistic fallacy. Murdoch (1919-1999); the sovereignty of god (1970) a. Rufus murdoch sovereignty of good: nature of the good life is part of the world something to aim to, morality and ethics are a form of knowledge. We aim at and are capable of knowledge: a way we arrive at moral knowledge attention. Special meaning; kind of mental activity we practice to gain knowledge: we all ordinarily share this until it is corrupted by philosophy. The leading philosophies of the day claim that ethical knowledge is an illusion and misconception of what ethics is she doesn"t use expressivism but she is a part of this (emotivism) Emotions express certain commitments; moral judgments are attempts to get it right . Two philosophical movements opposed: in europ and in anglo-america: existentialism dominated in europe, analytical anglo-american and more prevalent. Richard hare or stuart hampshire (earlier books than what we read) The image to understand morality is about movement.
