[PHIL 2070] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (107 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2070
• Professor: Karen Houle

Document Summary

Philosophy of the environment week 1, lecture 2. We are social beings; act on, and acted upon by others: all of our action affect others, all other"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374) i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t o(cid:374) us (cid:862)moralit(cid:455)(cid:863) fo(cid:272)uses o(cid:374) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, or behaviours. Jones took the cow: assessed normatively (evaluative statements) It"s (cid:271)ad that jo(cid:374)es took the (cid:272)o(cid:449: many actions that we see, participate in, or that happen to us are evaluated by us. Focus on the difference between factual and normative statements for chapter 1. Use of torture by the cia will be talked about in seminar: things like waterboarding. Question = rightness or wrongness of actions. Systematic: we want to act in such ways or be acted upon in such was that are just arbitrary. This should have a kind of form in which majority of people would do the same thing in similar situations. Non-arbitrary action, people are expected to (and do) the same thing.