Moral Basis 1: Intro
A. What is ethics / moral philosophy?
-how should I live? what should I do?
"fact" vs "value"
"is" vs "ought"
"descriptive" vs "normative"
B. What is political philosophy?
-how should we live? i.e., together in a political community
-what is distinctive about political philosophy?
-key normative question for political philosophy: exercise of political power
-sheer power vs legitimate power
-illegitimate power vs. legitimate authority
C. Ethics: What factors determine what one ought to do?
1. Commonsense answer
2. Theory of value / theory of the good:
3. Theory of the Right
4. Consequentialism
5. Deontology
D. Politics
1. What makes political order legitimate? (political philosophy)
2. How ought the individual act? (ethics)