What defines Good
- This is a preview of the essay.
To view the full text you must login!
What Determine Good?
Everyone has their own definition of good. These three philosophers, Moore, Stevenson and Hare all shares Kants idea of good should not have any empirical part. However, they have different notion about Kants idea of good should be purely based on rationality.
Firstly, Kant argues that moral principle should not have any empirical part, because moral principle should be applicable in a universal way (287). And since experience can only describe and apply to particular circumstances (287). He points out if a law is to have any moral force, that is, to be the basis of an obligation, this obligation should not be falling on experience, but a priori simply in the conception of pure reason (288). When he comes up to the definition of good will, he argues that a good will is good because it is good in itself and without any qualification, and is simply for the sake of the good will itself.
Moore argues that good is simple and indefinable, and is not to be identified with any natural property (461). By what he mean is good is like yellow, we are not able to identify them because they are not complex thing like horse that we are able do describe its feature and break it down to a simpler thing...