"Natural Goodness"

"Natural Goodness"

Still... how do we know if a tiger is a good tiger?

by Philippa Foot

Or in fact: how do we know a tiger is a tiger?

What characteristics does a tiger have?

Goodness of a tiger depends directly on the relation of an individual to the 'life form' of its species

Biologically: Goal accomplished!

If...

Self-maintenance

Natural-history account evaluation

Reproduction

Being Transcendental!!!

Goodness for professor Foot:

Natural Goodness

natural

By Thompson

It is given to living things and their parts, characteristics and operations.

goodness

Only living things...

and

the

people

Our Natural-history account...?

Secondary Goodness

around us!

And the whole point is...

A good life means...

It is in relation with fulfilling the purpose that we assigned to something.

Over the ages and places???

Biologically:

"For all the differences that there are, between the evaluation of plants and animals and their parts and characteristics on the one hand, and the moral evaluations of humans on the other, we shall find that these evaluations share a basic logical structure and status…. I want to suggest that moral defect is a form of natural defect…"

Normative Ethics

Our

My conclusion...

And still wondering, are we naturally good?

Looks like natural goodness (biologically) can be evaluated but...

Again, how was the test? =S

Are we being good in the other aspects?

Are our acts good?

We still have many questions to answer

Are our first impulses directed toward goodness?

What about oxytocin?

Does all this have anything to do with our biology?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-born-good-165443013/

Introduction...

-Life cycle taking into account just self-maintenance and reproduction

-The propositions that say how for a certain species a good life was achieved.

-From all the hows, we can get the norms: the unique characteristics and processes needed by every species and the required of degrees of (speed).

-From the propositions and the norms the evaluation could be made just for the individual to see if it was as it should or defective in any degree.

What do babies teach us?

Can this information give us a glance into the answers?

-Why Natural Goodness?

Back to the tiger's example!

Sounded like the question of the million: are we naturally good?

Foot's contribution:

Playing a part in their lives!

Are all features useful to evaluate for an individual is goodness?

Defect or not?

But it was something pretty different...

Now I wondered: is Foot's view related to it, or could at least this idea give us clues about it?

Let's see what she says...

Ethics 2306

Instructor: Sergio Tarin

Presentation by: Susana Sanchez

Means or ends?

Teleological features or not?

References :

The Ethical Life

by Russ Shafer-Landau

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-born-good-165443013/?no-ist=&src=tvideomod&page=5

https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals?language=en#t-747798

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/teleological