Hitler
Christine Boelkow
9/13/07
Chapter 5 Question 1:
Question- Under the moral system espoused by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, property was stolen and destroyed; countries were invaded, looted, and pillaged, and millions of innocent people were raped, mutilated, experimented upon, tortured, and murdered. Discuss the extent to which you feel that such a system is moral or immoral, basing your answers upon whether you feel morality is relative or absolute? Hitler and the Nazi party did many things before, during, and after World War II. In today’s world there still is a movement of youth calling themselves skinheads who support many of his beliefs. In looking at the events supported by Hitler for me to determine his acts moral or immoral I must first define my moral beliefs and those of society. The two belief systems I am going to look at Hitler and the Nazi party through are absolute and relative morality.
Absolute morality is defined as not to be questioned or doubted – positive, certain, unconditional and perfect in quality and complete. With cultural absolutism being society as a whole having similar moral principles, such as the need to eat, drink, and survive.
Whereas relative morality states no absolute values and that the values held are subject to time, place, persons and situations. Moral relativism is a belief system that is learned from the cultures that we grow up in and around.
To me what Hitler did was not only wrong in relation to absolute morality but also in relative reality. I grew up in a society that supports the belief that everything Hitler and the Nazi party did was not only immoral but absolutely and relatively wrong. Absolute morality to me means you do not kill others. You do not steal from others either their property or their pride. You do not violate a person by raping, experimenting, torturing or mutilating them.
In the United States, we grow up with the relative beliefs that each
9/13/07
Chapter 5 Question 1:
Question- Under the moral system espoused by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, property was stolen and destroyed; countries were invaded, looted, and pillaged, and millions of innocent people were raped, mutilated, experimented upon, tortured, and murdered. Discuss the extent to which you feel that such a system is moral or immoral, basing your answers upon whether you feel morality is relative or absolute? Hitler and the Nazi party did many things before, during, and after World War II. In today’s world there still is a movement of youth calling themselves skinheads who support many of his beliefs. In looking at the events supported by Hitler for me to determine his acts moral or immoral I must first define my moral beliefs and those of society. The two belief systems I am going to look at Hitler and the Nazi party through are absolute and relative morality.
Absolute morality is defined as not to be questioned or doubted – positive, certain, unconditional and perfect in quality and complete. With cultural absolutism being society as a whole having similar moral principles, such as the need to eat, drink, and survive.
Whereas relative morality states no absolute values and that the values held are subject to time, place, persons and situations. Moral relativism is a belief system that is learned from the cultures that we grow up in and around.
To me what Hitler did was not only wrong in relation to absolute morality but also in relative reality. I grew up in a society that supports the belief that everything Hitler and the Nazi party did was not only immoral but absolutely and relatively wrong. Absolute morality to me means you do not kill others. You do not steal from others either their property or their pride. You do not violate a person by raping, experimenting, torturing or mutilating them.
In the United States, we grow up with the relative beliefs that each