PHILOS 4 Lecture 11: 11th lecture
7 Feb 2016
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We started with declarations, plans, and intentions, but now we have a. Promises take something that has no obligation and makes it into an (cid:1) obligation (cid:1) (cid:1) word promise that gives someone a moral obligation to carry out what he/she states (cid:1) (cid:1) Corn; help me today and i"ll help you tomorrow (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) There is a valuable convention that we need/is necessary to have, and that convention requires that you do certain things. Therefore, you should do what the convention requires. This device has a value, and because of our collected interest, i should abide by the convention: reasons to abide: moral convention and. 1) we all have an interest in there being __x___ To keep it going, it requires certain actions, like keeping promises and. Hume says this is how we have obligations (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) respecting other people"s promises (cid:1) (cid:1) obligatory (cid:1) to and can be recognized, so it"s public (cid:1)
