PP110 Midterm: Midterm/Final notes
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Reasoned attempt to resolve important normative dilemmas. Makes claims about how the world should or ought to be or has been. I. e i should get dressed before noon. Makes claims about the way the world is , was or will be. Jim crowe laws: limitations on african americans use of restaurants. Subject matter of ethics, is more important than subject matter of etiquette. Law, etiquette, and religion are more particular than philosophy. To view that, for each of us, it is best to preform only those actions that are ful lling our own desires or interests, regardless of the effect such actions have on others. Best: to do injustice and not be caught. Worst: to suffer unjustly w/o being able to retaliate. Justice is chosen, not for its own sake, but as the lesser evil. Chosen only to avoid being the victim of injustice happy. Socratic/christian view: socrates: the unjust person has disordered soul, and is not truly.
