Assignment 1: MORAL REASONING Short Essay: Moral reasoning is individual or collective practical reasoning about what‚ morally‚ one ought to do. For present purpose‚ we may understand issues about what is right or wrong‚ virtuous or vicious‚ as raising moral question. When we are faced with moral questions in daily life‚ just as when we are faced with child-rearing questions‚ sometimes we act impulsively or instinctively and sometimes we pause to reason about what we ought to do. Much of our reasoning
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Moral Relativism: An Evaluation The world is becoming an increasingly smaller place‚ culturally speaking. The modern world has more bridges to other cultures and ways of thinking than ever before. This phenomenon is due largely to the advent of the internet‚ global industry‚ and increased travel for business and pleasure to opposite corners of the world. This “global village” we live in introduces the average person to more cultural‚ and seemingly moral‚ differences than previous generations
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Moral universalism Moral universalism also called as moral objectivism which can be defined as the position in meta-ethics that some moral values can be applied universally to everyone which is also known as universal morality. Besides‚ moral universalism also can be defined as the system of ethics‚ or a universal ethic that applies to all people regardless of their personal opinion or the majority opinion of their cultures. Furthermore‚ moral universalism also holds the moral values that apply
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THE MORAL ARGUMENT How do we explain the fact that people often refrain from immoral acts even when there is no risk of their being caught? There are many formulations of the moral argument but they all have as their starting point the phenomenon (fact) of moral conscience. In essence the moral argument poses the question: where does our conscience‚ our sense of morality come from if not from God? It also asserts that if we accept the existence of objective moral laws we must accept the existence
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On Hating Piano Lessons by Phyllis Theroux When Phyllis Theroux was writing “On Hating Piano Lessons” I believe that she wanted to let the audience know that there is a reason behind forcing children to take lessons they might not enjoy. I strongly agree with the Phyllis Theroux’s point of view in her essay‚ “On Hating Piano Lessons”. I believe that every child must have structure while growing up and while they are still too young to make those decisions‚ parents must step in to help us. Parents
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The way I interpret the four approaches to moral differences are as follows: Soft Universalism is where a person or people have certain morals they loosely base their actions/lifestyle on‚ but they don’t have any qualms with straying from them depending on the situation. I think this approach is more of a‚ coward’s way out‚ if you will. It basically means you don’t really have to stand by any morals whatsoever‚ because you can say you’re all for or all against something‚ until the situation arises
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Name: Kristine Anne L. Romen Year & section: 2nd yr‚ Psy 1y2-4 Date of demonstration teaching: 02/27/13 Topic: Developing Positive Attitude Final grade: _______ LESSON PLAN I. OBJECTIVE At the end of the lesson/discussion‚ the students are expected to: a. Define positive attitude b. Apply to oneself how to be an optimistic individual when challenges and difficulties arise. c. Recognize the importance of creating an optimistic way of thinking. II. SUBJECT
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Critical Summary Regan argues that there is a difference between moral disagreements and personal preference disagreements. He believes that disagreements in preferences do exist between people. Someone likes or prefers something and another person may not like it or may be preferring something else. Judging morality as in what is morally right and wrong is different from when judging personal preferences. A person does not need justification to what his/her personal preferences are‚ because there
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At first glance‚ moral relativism appears to be an appealing‚ well though out philosophical view. The truth of moral judgments is relative to the judging subject or community. The basic definition of moral relativism is that all moral points of view are equally valid; no single person’s morals are any more right or wrong than any other person’s. As you look closer at the points that moral relativists use to justify their claims‚ you can plainly see that there are‚ more often than not‚ viable objections
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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little‚ day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. Wondering about what it takes to build up a strong character? Curious about what others have to say about character? There’s an African proverb that goes‚ “Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.” That goes for women too. Your character will speak so loudly about you‚ that it overpowers what you may try to convince
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