PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Moral Agency, Hicklin Test, Argumentum Ad Populum
14 Mar 2014
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If not, then rational critique, may allow is a way to determine whether some existing public morality is in fact worthy of support and enforcement. Ronald dowrkin was sympathetic to hart"s crtitique of devlin. Following hart"s lead, dworkin critiqued devlin"s conception of. You"re a legislative mp and you"re required to vote on a proposed bill preventing public- sphere workers from wearing conspicuous religious symbols in the workplace . The vast majority of your constituents fully support the bill. But you believe they are morally wrong. In your view the bill: would unjustifiably infringe freedom of expression and religion, as well as the equality rights of religious minorities, is the result of deep seated prejudice against muslims. Should you: ignore your own morla convictions and bow to the moral views of your constituents, refuse to endorse their position and instead vote against the bill. Is it your duty to respect the moral position of your community in the descriptive or.
