Religion Gives Meaning to Life Pojman’s conclusion is that religion gives life meaning‚ whereas a secular life is not significant to the way we view our world. He argues that autonomy is freedom with no restrictions and religion gives meaning and purpose to life‚ even though there are some sacrifices to our freedom. He says there has to be an explanation to how our world came to be and that our world comes from something much bigger than any of us can wrap our head around. Pojman gives
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Louis Pojman argues for objectivism instead of relativism in morality even though we are attracted to the idea of relativism. Ethical relativism is made up of a diversity thesis and a dependency thesis. The diversity thesis is also known as cultural relativism and basically states that morality is different between different societies. The dependency thesis is similar to the diversity thesis‚ but states that morality depends on the context of the society. There are two views on the dependency
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but today many argue that this punishment is not moral‚ while there are others that argue that if you are cruel enough to take a life‚ you deserve to get your life taken away‚ a life for a life. Louis Pojman and Jeffrey Reiman have debated this issue very closely‚ coming up with two opposite opinions on capital punishment. I will argue that even though I can see why Pojman thinks the way he does‚ he just doesn’t have enough evidence to back up his thesis when comparing it to Reiman’s. I will suggest
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Louis Pojman stands for objectivism instead of relativism in morality. Ethical relativism is “the theory that there are no universally valid moral principles”. Ethical relativism however is different from moral doubt where valid moral principles do not exist at all. Pojman argues that what is considered as morally right or wrong varies from society to society. Pojman proposes that ethical relativism can be seen as a good thing but can get hard when getting into the details. Ethical relativism is
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The Question of Animal Rights A Critique of Louis Pojman’s Thoughts The fundamentals of philosophy are based upon human beings’ ability to examine the "marvels and mysteries of the world" (Pojman xi) we live in. Keeping in mind that only a human being has the intellectual capacity to take on such deliberation‚ humans should be the sole beneficiaries of any morals or ethical rights derived from philosophical inspection. To suggest the possibility that our ethical rights could be transferable
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Pojman argues the need for a death penalty. He makes the claim that because of natural instinct‚ we as human beings demand that a criminal is punished properly in relation the crime he or she commits. We are not fully satisfied until this punishment is fully brought against the criminal (Pojman‚ 2004). Yet at the same time‚ we as humans have evolved to be able to refrain from taking vengeance into
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In a situation where a group of people sneak up on someone and beat them up just for fun can be a moral cultural relativism in two different ways. Being beaten up for fun can be morally wrong or morally right. Ruth Benedict and Louis Pojman’s view on a random violence like this are based off of relativism and objectivism. Moral cultural relativism are the principles that an individual’s beliefs and activities should be understood by others. It is considering a moral in one society‚ but immoral to
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weekly basis when cheating can be so easy and advantageous. Especially sense‚ as according to the polls taken in Pojman’s philosophy classes‚ about two thirds of students affirmed moral relativism‚ meaning that if everyone in the school believed it was morally right to cheat - then it was right to cheat (Pojman‚ 242). Let’s assume a situation where your friend tells you she’s planning on cheating on her exam‚ and justifies her plan on the grounds that cheating is the norm at her school. In this situation
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Introduction Does death give meaning to life? One might wonder how something so morbid could bring meaning to “life”‚ which is supposedly something more pleasant and sound. Bernard Williams was an English philosopher in the 20th century who suggests that death gives meaning to life‚ and that immortality might not be something that one should desire and wish for (Jacobsen‚ 104). In the average human life‚ everyone has many different desires that bring meaning and purpose to that life. There are conditional
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The meaning of life has been debated among many people throughout history. Different theories have been used to try and explain what our purpose is in this life. I’ve always heard from my parents that life is too short for regrets‚ and that there will be good and bad days. However what is it that people strive for in life? In reality there is no right answer to this simple question. Some people strive for living life in the moment which philosopher Baggini can agree with. Others see religion as an
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