PHI 192 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethical Subjectivism, Applied Ethics, Moral Skepticism
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Tells us when an action is morally right ( if and only if ) Morally right means it"s ok allowed by morally permissive. Morally wrong is to say an action is non permissive. Anything wrong with trying to transform ourselves into posthumans. Fact something true that can be proven v opinion what someone thinks feels or believes. Some beliefs can be true so at time a fact can be an opinion. Moral skepticism - the denial of objective moral standard. Ethical objectivism _ the view that some moral standards are objectively correct and some moral claims are objectively true. Moral nihilism- the view that there are no moral truths at all. (nothing is right or wrong) based on opinion not fact. Ethical relativism -some moral rules are correct these determine which moral claims are true and which are false. moral standard is relative to each person or society) therefore standards are appropriate for some and not others no objective.
