[PHIL 2550] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (15 pages long)

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When you make a claim about how the world should be it is a normative claim and it is strange to make the claim that is it only relative to you. Our claims are universal in that what we believe is what everyone should believe; moral claims are not entirely individual. There is no way to entirely distinguish between the two. The study of the distinction between ethics and morality. How does one live a good life: we"re trying to construct an argument to prove what is right and wrong; justify the claims. Descriptive: describe the way the world is and have theories to predict what will happen. Normative: people"s arguments about what is ethically right or wrong: ex. a newspaper: one part describes an accurate & unbiased description of the world but there is the opinion area. Help us reach moral judgements (a. k. a normative judgements) It is sunny outside (descriptive) vs you should go outside (normative)

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