the person. Ethical or moral relativism is the position in meta-ethics that morality is not universal‚ but that moral truths can be determined by factors relative to social‚ cultural‚ historical or personal circumstances. In the other hand‚ people who believe ethics are absolute‚ they support a set of rules that applies to everyone in general. Moral absolutism holds that moral and immoral acts are always so regardless of context. Other forms that fall into moral absolutism are ethical objectivism
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Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism are two contrasting terms that are displayed by different people all over the world. Simply put‚ ethnocentrism is defined as "judging other groups from the perspective of one’s own cultural point of view." Cultural relativism‚ on the other hand‚ is defined as "the view that all beliefs are equally valid and that truth itself is relative‚ depending on the situation‚ environment‚ and individual." Each of these ideas has found
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“HE IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS‚ OF ALL THINGS THAT ARE THAT THEY ARE‚ AND OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT THAT THEY ARE NOT...” By: Protagoras INTRODUCTION Protagoras of Abdera was one of several fifth century Greek thinkers collectively known as the Older Sophists‚ a group of travelling teachers or intellectuals who were experts in rhetoric (the science of oratory) and related subjects. His famous saying is: “Man is the measure of all things: of things which are‚ that they are‚ and of things
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Ethical concerns are an essential area in business practices‚ which is applied within organizations to examine ethical principles and ethical dilemmas arisen. In order to form long-term ethical conduct within an organization‚ usually‚ a company would organize for ethical business policies‚ for example‚ establishing codes of ethics combined with training programs‚ or/and execute these ethical policies which means “leadership in delegation‚ communication and motivation of the company’s ethical position
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Animals are used to test scientific developments and commercial products. New medical treatments are tested on animals to verify the toxicity of new medications or the safety of a product that will be used on humans. The health care and commercial industries also turn to animal testing for these reasons. They say animal testing has contributed to many life saving cures and treatments. Experiments in which dogs had their pancreases removed led directly to the discovery of insulin‚ critical to saving
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This premise of cultural relativism shows prefigure of moral relativism. Moral relativism can be generally grouped into three categories; (1) descriptive moral relativism‚ (2) normative moral relativism‚ and (3) meta-ethical moral relativism. Descriptive relativism‚ according to Frankena‚ is the idea ‘that the basic ethical beliefs of different people and societies are different and even conflicting’ [1973:109]. The second form of ethical relativism conceives the idea that ‘what is really right or
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To what extent is animal experimentation considered ethical? Every year more than 25 million animals are used to develop new medicines and the majority of these animals are either euthanized or die from the experiments. This makes many people question our motives and moral principles. Should we continue to allow scientists to use animals for their research? Is research experiments really necessary? Is it alright for us to kill animals just so that we can benefit? The debate between supporting or
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Animal testing has been around since Aristotle’s time. Since then animal testing really took off for medical uses in the early 19th century. Since then laws have been put on animal testing when congress passed the Food‚ Drug‚ and Cosmetic Act in 1938. It is estimated that 26 million animals are abused in animal testing annually. Some of the causes include animal testing cannot stop or we would have no way of knowing if something is safe or not‚ assuming that animals and humans have the same DNA‚
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Background of the Topic: Many people nowadays seek for “THE TRUTH”. I searched up the internet and Google gave me 611 million answers in just a quart of a second. As top answer Google gave me this definition from wisegeek.com‚ “An absolute truth‚ sometimes called a universal truth‚ is an unalterable and permanent fact. The concept of absolute truths - what they are and whether they exist - has been debated among many different groups of people. Philosophers have waded in the muck of defining absolute
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Spiritual formation: Gandhi and loving God as truth As one puts oneself in the way of God‚ several theological questions necessarily arise: what is God? How does one engage‚ experience‚ and enter into the way of God? For the Christian seeker‚ the questions become more specific: is this God the sky God Yahweh? Is Jesus of Nazareth the incarnation of this God? Is God only interested in self-described ’Christians‚’ or is he for all? For Mohandas K. Gandhi‚ Hindu spiritual
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