Relativist Morality is unfair discuss Relativist morality could be seen as unfair‚ when looked at closely and seen from critics’ point of view it becomes clear that it is easy to question perhaps because of its weakness as a moral system. The weakness could somewhat be perceived as making Relativist morality unfair. A relativist cannot pass judgement but yet to be true to their name ‘relativist’ they would be practising ‘do not pass judgement’ thus they are preaching to others that they should
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experience has affected my ethical thinking. Interpretation According to my results‚ I tend to base my ethical perspective in what is good to be rather than what is good to do. This is correct; I strongly believe that ethics focus in ways to achieve moral excellence. I know that our actions are the reflection of our character‚ but at the same time I believe that we must look beyond the actions to determine the individual’s character. Our actions can be motivated or influenced by different circumstances:
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about the second premise ‘Objective moral values do exist’. What we generally mean by ‘Objective’ is not being influenced by opinions or feelings. Thus‚ objective moral values mean the moral values that are not affected by different opinions of individuals or societies. However‚ most of moral behaviors are strongly influenced by cultures or individual opinions. What is moral or immoral depends on the culture‚ on the person‚ and on the era. There is no objective moral values that are absolute. The exact
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idea that there are‚ or even can be‚ objective moral truths‚ and exposits Mackie’s ‘moral relativist’ stance. I intend also in this essay to criticise the idea of moral objectivity‚ and to deal with the objections that could be potentially raised to a relativist stance. The most obvious task‚ it would seem‚ to begin with when assessing the idea of moral objectivity‚ is to come to an understanding about what is literally meant by ‘an objective moral truth’. The word objective immediately brings to
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three questions. Theory What moral statements express What moral statements describe What makes moral statements true or false Objective moral facts: Objective wrongness of torturing kittens. Objective moral facts: Objective wrongness of torturing kittens. Moral code of speaker’s culture: Disapproval of torturing kittens by speaker’s culture. Moral code of person’s culture (not necessarily speaker). Disapproval of torturing kittens by that person’s culture. Any objective moral facts?
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relativism Some people may argue that‚ “what’s right/moral in my eyes‚ may not be right/moral in your eyes”. This is considered individual moral relativism. Cultural moral relativism is putting culture at the top of relative ethical decision-making. (Argosy University‚ 2014). These two different moral relativisms differ in the fact that one is putting what you believe first and the other is putting your culture first. I believe that individual moral relativism has some strengths‚ and some weaknesses
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Ethics is our morals‚ it help us determine from the right and the wrong behavior‚ and helps us determine the good from the bad in the human character‚ but it is also something that has to be constantly updated‚ "Ethics and character are absolute values that we cannot take for granted. They must be constantly reinforced." (Hagel). Advanced technology in the military is very debatable when it comes to an ethical perspective because the military involves lives of individuals it deals with morals. Some may
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disagree on moral values (on some level) with those who stay in Omelas. Those who walk away disagree with the price the town pays for happiness. They do not want to destroy the town’s utopia but at the same time they do not want to be a part of that system. Those who walk away from Omelas are not Ethical Relativists because they disagree with the town’s (that culture’s) moral philosophy. Ethical Relativists believe that each culture’s morality is moral within itself; each culture has its own moral codes
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10. Concentration Camp10952You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?9. The AccidentAmbulanceYou are an emergency worker that has just been called to the scene of an accident. When you arrive you see that the car belongs
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what the morals of individual cultures say. Others‚ such as James Rachels‚ believe that there is a universal code of ethics that transcends the moral codes of individual cultures. In his essay‚ “Morality is Not Relative”‚ Rachels discusses ethical relativism‚ or as he calls it “Cultural Relativism”‚ and the logical problems that are associated with this code. Cultural
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