in Livermore’s chapter 10‚ answer the following questions: How do we embrace “category width” without falling into moral relativism? “The degree to which we’re even comfortable thinking about that notion is directly connected to our category width.” (182). Broad categorizers tend to lean toward cultural width and I can understand that better now. I believe that people can have morals and biblical values and still have a right‚ different‚ and wrong meter. In my opinion‚ the bible is your guide and
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ARE THERE UNIVERSAL MORAL REQUIREMENTS AND IS SOME MORALS UNIVESRALLY KNOWN AS WRONG? CHALLENGES TO RELATIVISM Heidi Derflinger SOC 120 June 13‚ 2011 ARE THERE UNIVERSAL MORAL REQUIREMENTS AND IS SOME MORALS UNIVERSALLY KNOWN AS WRONG? CHALLENGES TO RELATIVISM Imagine you are a philosopher/thinker‚ attending a conference where the following questions arise; Are there universal moral requirements? Are there some morals universally known as wrong? One philosopher‚ Lenn Goodman argues that there
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The moral guide that American society should use for making moral decisions is moral absolutism. This means that I agree that certain moral ideas should be universally accepted. There are many different cultures and customs and each has their own ideas regarding their own truths and what is moral. There can be so many different views of what is right and wrong depending on the culture and their own beliefs. However‚ there are certain moral ideas that should be universal. Regarding moral relativism
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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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Moral Relativism Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint; for instance‚ that of a culture or a historical period‚ and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others. It has often been associated with other claims about morality: notably‚ the thesis that different cultures often exhibit radically different moral values; the denial that there are universal moral values shared by every human society; and the insistence
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Ethnics are characteristics of a person or a certain group of people that share a culture ‚ religion‚ or language. Moral relativism is just a viewpoint from someone’s ethnical standards‚ which is how they feel. Basically it is something that people feel in their opinion that it is either right or wrong from a moral stand point in their eyes. Everyone has ethnics they might not be same as the ones you or I might have grew up with or have ever heard of but it does not mean that they are wrong or
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Our text discusses the challenge relativism presents to various ethical and religious viewpoints. Consider a specific moral question which might make it difficult to accept the relativist’s response. State the moral issue involved‚ and provide an explanation as to why you think a relativist might have problem giving a justified response to it. Relativism presents challenges to various ethical‚ moral and religious viewpoints. It is tempting to be able to think “live and let live”. Personally
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Objective moral truths are truths that exist regardless of an individuals or a group opinion. Subjectivists believe that there are no objective moral truths and that morality is decided by the person. For instance‚ some objectivists would say that it is an objective moral truth that torturing babies is wrong. While subjectivist believe that it is morally true or morally wrong if one approves or disproves of torturing babies. According to subjectivism‚ things are either right or wrong according to
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Cultural Pluralism is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities‚ and their values and practices are accepted by the wider culture provided they are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society. In my neighborhood‚ (Brooklyn‚ East Flatbush) there are many people from different races‚ culture and creed. I am surrounded by Indians‚ Asians‚ Latinos‚ Russians‚ African Americans‚ West Indians and Jews and we all co-exist with each other
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the article “Many North African Muslims believe that female circumcision is required by certain saying they attribute to Mohammad‚ the founder of Islam” So the people of Western North African uses a similar culture. Ethical Relativism is basically explained by whatever moral standards are widely accepted in a society. Relativists believe that what is ethical is relative to its place‚ time‚ culture etc. So a relativist would argue that female circumcision is perfectly ethical in the cultures that
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