Thursday, October 22, 2009

Philo Tut 3 notes

2 different sense of sound.... the word can be used differently.
what is meant by fairness?
definition with limitations will be able to help... like for the purpose of this paper, i would like to define fairness in the sense that......
conclude by providing a devasting argument against it....?!!good at seeing argument positions not converting everyone. we can say that our argument fails as blah blah blah.... blow up ur own paper by doing so in an elegant fashion!
but it can go wrong as if the objection is very obvious then you have to develop it before hand! instead of being lazy.

ethics is situational, it is inherently unlikely that no simple one statement will be able to draw the line. it depends on fine judgement and details to prove that no one judgement is better.....

moral principles are? is there any points to make generalisation about morality?
look for commonalities instead of diversities.

based on social conventions. it is called anchoring. adjustment of behaviour to fit in social conventions. follow the corwd. the way things actually are is actually ok~~ being too selfish and being not selfish enough... This is jsut a thing that happens.
morality... we behave regualryly like how people in our culture would. we dun think about why? we jsut pick it up.to the extent that we just regard the reason as arbitary. you're aware of the cultural arbiratriness. the fact that you have anchored doesn't neccessarily think that that is right. you hope that it is. but you're not sure that it is all the time

heuristic: hands on approach.

if we can have a do a right thing rule, we will go for that. but since we can't we jsut settle for something else. something lesser.