Box 59, Item 683: Draft of Ethics projects and issues
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Box 59, Item 683: Draft of Ethics projects and issues
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Typescript draft, with emendations and annotations.
Description
Note, one of three papers digitised from item 683.
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Source
The University of Queensland's Richard Sylvan Papers UQFL291, Box 59, Item 683
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This item was identified for digitisation at the request of The University of Queensland's 2020 Fryer Library Fellow, Dr. N.A.J. Taylor.
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ETHICS PROJECTS AND ISSUES
1
l
That of putting together and justifying as
largely
evaded
Aristotelean,
outside
one
of
two
.
whole a svstem of ethics. ~t ask is ~
One
traditions.
which sets out with a
74.
R
where
it
is
tackled
is
the
conception of Man's end or uJ timate good, and
),J(
/ .'
)(~
then endeavours to show that the virtuous life - which is what ethics concerns - wilJ
1
ff/f'O
fulfil this or realise it.
By contrast,
Cicero begins with a fairly full-fledp-ed colJ ection of duties and
makes some attempt at showing personal advantage will not clash with those.
for
Duty's
together:
sake
requires a .iustification.
And collections
,-e_ 9. ~ ,; ~ru.:t:
there is a ~grneu-+: of coherence on ethical svstems .
21 Why want fallacies, such as those
fallacies?
be.
J abel1ec'l
have
naturaJ ism and
to
But nuty
be
pulled
prescriptive,
RR
Because if they weren't fallacies too much that is not determined would
Briefly,
one would not
expect
that is ohligatory or good
to fol low from the
scientific facts, because that would determine which value system to adhere to .
But
there is not a fina1 unique system delivered from the facts.
31
Def ea ting
objections
achieved by
to
consequentionalist objections
reliance
on
principles
( act - ) utilitarianism
is
that
to deontics .
sometjmes
a
One of the frequent
better outcome
or like act consequentialism ,
that ob,jection no longer carries any weight .
can
be
Under satisizing
It is· enough , at most , that application
of the principle yields a sufficiently good outcome .
T
1
l
That of putting together and justifying as
largely
evaded
Aristotelean,
outside
one
of
two
.
whole a svstem of ethics. ~t ask is ~
One
traditions.
which sets out with a
74.
R
where
it
is
tackled
is
the
conception of Man's end or uJ timate good, and
),J(
/ .'
)(~
then endeavours to show that the virtuous life - which is what ethics concerns - wilJ
1
ff/f'O
fulfil this or realise it.
By contrast,
Cicero begins with a fairly full-fledp-ed colJ ection of duties and
makes some attempt at showing personal advantage will not clash with those.
for
Duty's
together:
sake
requires a .iustification.
And collections
,-e_ 9. ~ ,; ~ru.:t:
there is a ~grneu-+: of coherence on ethical svstems .
21 Why want fallacies, such as those
fallacies?
be.
J abel1ec'l
have
naturaJ ism and
to
But nuty
be
pulled
prescriptive,
RR
Because if they weren't fallacies too much that is not determined would
Briefly,
one would not
expect
that is ohligatory or good
to fol low from the
scientific facts, because that would determine which value system to adhere to .
But
there is not a fina1 unique system delivered from the facts.
31
Def ea ting
objections
achieved by
to
consequentionalist objections
reliance
on
principles
( act - ) utilitarianism
is
that
to deontics .
sometjmes
a
One of the frequent
better outcome
or like act consequentialism ,
that ob,jection no longer carries any weight .
can
be
Under satisizing
It is· enough , at most , that application
of the principle yields a sufficiently good outcome .
T
Collection
Citation
Richard Sylvan, “Box 59, Item 683: Draft of Ethics projects and issues,” Antipodean Antinuclearism, accessed April 24, 2024, https://antipodean-antinuclearism.org/items/show/152.