PP110 Lecture Notes - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Pleasure, Immanuel Kant
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We often face difficult, but important, moral choices. Two parts- we need to have answers to moral questions because we have to settle or agree on something. We can"t do nothing and there has to be a resolution. Also, we feel that these things are true or false, right or wrong. In order to provide an explanation of our moral claims we need conceptual framework ex- a theory that allows us to make sense of them. For example- in order to explain why the moon orbits the earth we need a theory of gravitation. By theory we mean a set of ideas that are presupposed to supply an explanation for something. Ancient greeks formulated a theory based on spheres; they moved in circles and were nestled within one another. They tried to explain what was what before science could explain it. There are different theories to explain the same thing, such as ethical theories.
