PHI 2183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Glaucon
28 Jan 2014
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Jan. 23, 2014: takes a moral subjectivist and instrumental-prudential view, morality is what each man calls good in the state of nature. Instrumental view of rationality what is the most instrumental means to reach this end (avoiding violent death: law of nature each man has the right to all things. The obligation to obey laws comes from avoiding chaos and the state of nature. You can"t derive the interest to keep a promise from a previously made promise. If we have an obligation to keep promises. Either it"s a contradiction with the claim that there are no moral duties or there is. 1 moral duty the duty to keep promises. Hobbes" initial appeal is that there are no moral interest, but from. Either contradict the assumption that there are no moral duties, or include them all. Hobbes says our allegiance comes from our ancestors. Prior generation promises do not bind descendants.
