SFI-UF 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Global Warming, Normative Ethics, Deontological Ethics

• School: New York University
• Department: Social Foundations I
• Course: SFI-UF 101
• Professor: Gurland Robert

Document Summary

For platonist you have to commit to this aesthetic highest life u can do is life to achieve the truth most gratifying etc philosopher lives embracing death, not denying it. Object of real knowledge is not accessible to the body, only to the soul. For aristotle you live in a sensible world, sensation counts. Well being with the individual comes with doing what you"re most suitable to do. We are programmed (dna) determines our capacity, who we are. It is to some extent you"re not as different form acorn. Plato thinks that there is one thing that is optimal in everyone if you press on it and work on it you"ll be happy. Choices to be determined in some ways by self discovery. Both of them believe that your wellbeing and community"s wellbeing are somehow consonant compatible. Often we don"t accept the idea that our wellbeing are not in line with social advantages.