PHIL 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Value Pluralism, Agnosticism, Psychological Egoism

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9 Sep 2016

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The God Question(s)

•Role of God in Ethics

•for many, God is the absolute and God’s sacred scripture is the ultimate ethical standard

•reconciled with ethical pluralism —> everyone has a piece of understanding —> God

is the elephant

•What if There is No God

•does atheism or agnosticism change ethics

•need to ﬁnd why you believe

•don’t believe in God but still ethics

The Selﬁshness Question

•Distinguishing an “ough” from an “is”

•psychological egoism

•empirically we can observe people tend to act out of self interest

•exclusive egoism

•we always act out of sea interest

•predominant egoism

•we usually act out of self interest

•Acceptance that all ethics, religious, or philosophical, are grounded in belief

•we cannot prove ethical systems correct (not a science)

•we need to be open to the possibility that our belief system is wrong

Moral Process

World Views/Stance —> Moral Norms —> Moral Stance

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