L30 Phil 131F Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Engineered Language, Normative Ethics, Meta-Ethics
12 Dec 2018
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Ethics: a subfield of philosophy, the study of good and bad, right and wrong, and reasons for acting one way or another. Philosophy: thinking critically and carefully about fundamental concepts, questions, and principles. Fundamental philosophy: concepts that we use all the time but don"t typically reflect on them (we rely on them implicitly) such as free will and obedience. Philosophy of religion, action, history, law, mind, race, science, political science, feminism, psychology. Argument: a series of sentences, the last of which is a conclusion, while the rest are premises. Validity: it is impossible for the premises to be true while the conclusion is false / if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true. People only really act out of self interest.
