CMS 344K Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Evolutionary Ethics, Immanuel Kant, Normative Ethics
18 Feb 2016
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Is there an ethical crisis in the u. s. : people can lie so much, they will believe their own lies. Brian williams i was shot down in a helicopter lie example. Nostalgia i. e. , underestimating lying in the past: 2. Larger population now than ever before: 3. 24/7 media coverage of human affairs: 4. Maybe we have more opportunities to lie: 5. Maybe people now are more honest about how much they lie: 6. Maybe more people face more ethical dilemmas than they did in the past. Ethics: competing conceptions of how to live a good life and engage in proper conduct. Normative ethics identifying the moral status of an action: right vs wrong, just vs unjust, etc. Descriptive ethics study of how people actually make ethical judgements, not how they should be. Evolutionary ethics ethical theory based on biology, theory of natural selection, etc. Assume for the moment: us gov. did use false info to justify invasion of.
