PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Descriptive Ethics, Normative Ethics, Deontological Ethics

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September 15, 2011: descriptive ethics- studying morality or human behavior. Empirical study of peoples actual beliefs and practices that constitute their actual experiences. Not committed to any such view: normative ethics- philosophical search of moral standards. Cultural relativism: the most common argument for moral relativism, different cultures have different moral codes, therefore there are no objective moral standards. There is a premise about what people believe. The premise doesn t prove the conclusion, it is not necessarily that the conclusion is false. 1. if different cultures disagree about morality, then there is no objective truth. In some societies people believe the earth is at quote from the reading. Therefore, this is a bad argument and if you want to accept the conclusion, you will need some other argument. Sometimes the gap between judgement and action presses us to be tolerance.

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