PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Realism, Mother Teresa
1 Sep 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Criticism against moral realism might make rights . Definition of beauty: objective = functionality of something, subjective = beauty is in the eye of the beholder, inner beauty. No one knowingly does evil: if you know it is evil, you won"t do it, anything bad = no desire, jeffrey daumier = violating law was not his purpose but eating human meat was his purpose. It was illegal and wrong to others but it was okay to him. The trial and death of socrates: convicted and sentenced to death, knowing he was innocent and chose not to go to exile, he drank a poisonous drink and died. Independently existing (from human mind), non-spatial, non-temporal. Somethings ( kinds, types, or sorts ) known only through thought and that cannot be known through the senses; independently existing objects of thought; that which makes a particular thing uniquely and essentially what is.
