PHI 2396 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Categorical Imperative, 3 Women
7 Mar 2017
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Driven from belmont principle: autonomy, beneficence, mal. Being rational action to be moral and right. He had some scientific background with his father being a doctor and he was trained as a biologist. He was rational towards the world around him -forming the question/error on the natural world. He also managed to distinguish the group of hundreds of species. Distinction of human animals: we demonstrate reason like no other animals. The rational animal is a combination of the complex abstract reasons/thoughts & concrete rational form with embodiment. Aristotle(cid:859)s (cid:373)oral (cid:448)irtue allo(cid:449)ed the achievement the golden mean which made every moral act/virtue as an approp. middle between the 2 defects of too little or too much of something (not having any extreme is good) He looked into the natural world from animals/plants/overall ecosystems with balance, stability, consistency, moderation. Aristotle disagree with the extremist, just like our bodies, we do not want that to be beneficial.
