Ethics.txt

Universal morals difficult to find because of cultural differences, n valid pbilosophy

Doesn't allow growth by questioning culture, means you have to accept Hitler because that's his culture

Beliefs are very similar though they may be looked at from different ways by different cultures

Would you want it done to you

Definition of terms

Study of moral rights and wrongs

Clear accounts of right and wrong

Study of knowledge

No free will, decisions made by external sources

Not true or false (regan)

A denial of the opposing opinion, both can't be true

Doesn't change the underlying truth of it being right or wrong

God's or establishes who are infallible, always right

A gods ethics must be Tangible to judge, and must be judged by an external standard, negating moral authority because they can be wrong

Studies Specific problems or delivers and applies Normative ethics

What you should do

Presenting facts of case

Valuable in and of itself

Value outside itself or useful for something

Intrinsic value of human life

Not good bad right wrong, like choosing pen color

Deciding to tell the truth instead of lying

Choosing to lie instead of tell the truth

We accept a large portion of our knowledge without verifying or questioning

We're only good because people can tie us to our actions, if no consequences we'd all screw each other over, and that would be moral

How man should act

All men selfish implicitly

Selfish because you get recognition, or a feeling, or a favor

Obligations can't be accounted for because they involve doing something even when you want to do something else more

Doing what's right for you

Doing what's good for you I'm spite or in harm of others

Protecting your welfare not selfish even if at others detriment

One can be one but all can't, if you're an Egoist, it's not in your interest to make others egoists

We can make decisions against our self interest for pleasure (smoking)

Change says so crates wrong, you can be truly happy even while making immoral decisions

Can't be truly happy if immoral because weight of those choices will always pull you towards unhappiness

Disagrees with Socrates, if your immorality is accepted and justified to you you can be truly happy while immoral

Flourishing

Not worrying and having fun is not true happiness

People can think they are truly happy because they don't understand true happiness and thus can't verify

Unsustainable, those things will always go away

Overview of your life, not just your current mindset

Supposedly temporary due to suspension of moral honesty

Suggestion

Harm

Good people can't be harmed because all they need is moral integrity and no one can take that from them

Has no Intrinsic meaningfulness or value, only worthy of consideration if informed and ethical

Living well and happy is better than compromising those things for living longer

Living well is living morally

Just or injust doesn't change when it's about you instead of someone else and does not justify immorality for self preservation