PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Monism, Categorical Imperative
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Ross (1877-1971) monistic pluralistic prima facie duty intuitionism. 7 duties: delity, reparation, gratitude, justice, bene cence, self-improvement, non- male cience. He thoughts kants ethics were great but they were too black and white. He agreed with kant that duty is the way to go, intention matters outcome not so much. If its ethically good you have to have good intention. A problem with kant and mill and the divine will people that they had a monistic point of view- monist means one. Kant was too stuck on the categorical imperative. Life is a lil more complicated than that. Wd ross wants to propose pluralistic- might be more than one good thing to do. -kant is right we do have to do our duty but we have a whole bunch of duties, do one. Prima facie duty- on the face of it or the rst glance we have certain duties for example like to tell the truth,
