PHIL 1550 Chapter 6: ch 6 - natural law
10 Feb 2017
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Key to morality may lie in understanding our place in the natural order of things. All humans/animals share the same plight: certain one-day to die; vulnerable to harm in the meantime. Animals live good lives when their nature is fulfilled, and bad lives when it isn"t. Moral agents: those who bear responsibility for their actions, and who are fit for praise or blame. Hume"s argument: we can only know only two sorts of claims: (a) conceptual truths; (b) empirical truths, moral claims are neither conceptual truths nor empirical truths. Thursday, january 22, 2014: we can have no moral knowledge. Moral claims are neither conceptual nor empirical truths. For any moral claim, we can completely understand it & still wonder whether it is true not conceptual truth. We don"t discover moral claims by means of our senses not empirical truth: empirical knowledge tells us what is the case, morality tells us what ought to be the case.
