PHILOS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Deontological Ethics
7 Feb 2016
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Lies either hurt the person you are telling them to (kupfer and (cid:1) infringement of freedom), contracts and quest for knowledge (kant), trust will become eroded (augustine) (cid:1) (cid:1) There"s something you are doing to yourself when you lie (cid:1) (cid:1) yourself when you lie. Kupfer wants to argue that there are problematic things that happen to (cid:1) certain information. (cid:1) attitude (cid:1) (cid:1) (consequential argument) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) 1 when you lie, you place yourself above the other person in terms of. 2 subordinating other people in this way promotes a disrespectful. 3 promoting in oneself a disrespectful attitude is bad, to be avoided. Conclusion = this is bad; you have a disrespectful attitude. 1 a lie places yourself above the other regarding certain information. 2 subordinating others in this way is disrespectful. 3 being disrespectful is bad, to be avoided (deontology argument) What the action does (regardless of what it causes) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
