PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: A Priori And A Posteriori
28 Oct 2020
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Mill: pleasure is the only thing that we value for its own sake. But why should we care about other people"s pleasure/happiness? (not just your family, country, etc)mill doesn"t answer this part. Possible answer: there"s only good, no good for ? so just focus on what is good on its own. He has an answer to 3) why the formula and 4) why people should be moral. Kant: immorality is a form of irrationality. Preface: ethics is about laws about how to act that apply to all rational beings, if there is an ethical law - what is it, there is an ethical law. All of logic is a priori there is no empirical logic. 2a) we can study objects by looking at laws of nature. A priori: metaphysical nature (we don"t need experience to be justified in believing there are physical laws)
