PHIL 237 Study Guide - Final Guide: Superintelligence, Haemophilia, Universalizability
20 Apr 2016
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What it is:a series of universalizable theories, claims, beliefs, etc. that aim to be good for everyone, forever. We must concede that those who hold unconventional ethical beliefs are still living according to ethical standards if they believe, for some reason, that it is right to do as they are doing. Self-interested acts must be shown to be compatible with more broadly based ethical principles if they are to be ethically defensible, for the notion of ethics carries with it the idea of something bigger than the individual. What it is not: not about sex (understand here not a set of prohibitions) Not just a set of rules (do not steal, do not lie ) There are particularly complex moral issues (when it is unclear what is right and what is wrong: not based on religion, not relative to a society: Something may be good or bad within some societies.
