PHIL 3225- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)

• School: Temple University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 3225
• Professor: David Wolfsdorf

Document Summary

This is not an ethical question; ethics is only one subset of goodness. Goodness in general is not an empirical entity; it is a conceptual entity. Evaluative language: goodness and good are positive value terms while badness and bad are negative value terms. Goodness is a deadjectival nominalization - an adjective turned into a noun; the exploration of the nominalization process reveals meaning. Some hold that the meaning of a word is its use. The meaning will reveal the nature of the thing. Out of quotation marks: using the word. Moore (1903) - goodness is the foundation of ethics; not interested in language; seminal contribution; influenced successors; one founder of analytical philosophy. Stevenson (1935) - one example of non-cognitivism or non-epistemicism; words are emotive terms. Geach (1956) - against non-cognitivism; a statement is either true or false. Wolfsdorf - contemporary linguist; goodness is relational, not subjective. Subjective - essentially related to a subject of experience or consciousness.