PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Negative And Positive Rights, Moral Relativism, Meta-Ethics

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16 Feb 2013
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Access to health care- star and introduction to some basic concepts. All of the syllabus readings are required. Pragmatic justification for a minimum right to health care. Have to have what our metaethical commitments are. Different versions (ex. object and with end, how effective they are) subjectivism. If true, can t have an argument about morality. Belief that some things are unknown to humans. One view is that there is always a right answer, it s just unknown. Always, never impossible it s not impossible to answer hard issues (ex. abortion) What is objectively right and wrong is relative to community. Empirically false people apply universally and won t always have the same reaction because of how something is phrased. Three orientations (fundamental orientation) to approach morality. Can be objective about morality and have different views. In a sense, it is opposite to utilitarianism. May agree on certain things, but different routes of action.

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