PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Asparagine, Virtue Ethics, Modern Moral Philosophy
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He categorizes different assertions that are made in ethics (p. 485 2nd collumn). One of those assertions would be a definition of ethics, an ethical term, one would be a moral judgement. These are the different kinds of things that can be said in ethics. The meaning of the statements: p. 486 1st column, starting with the definitions, define concepts by such things as happiness, or appealings of approval. He would classify this kind of ethics as naturalistic. (similar to utilitarinism-in terms of happiness, humes-approval). Happiness is psychological and approval from the moral sense. What he says about is, hes criticizing the definitions. He gives an open question style argument to show why these definitions cant work, utilizing moores technique. Its poiting out it wouldn"t be self contradictory to say that (p. 486 2nd collum) what is generally approved of is not right. If that"s not self contradictory to say that, than that definition is not correct.
