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 Absolutism a) Explain what is meant by Moral Absolutism. (25) Moral absolutism is an ethical theory which believes that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged‚ and that certain actions are either right or wrong. Moral absolutists might‚ for example‚ judge slavery‚ war‚ dictatorship‚ the death penalty‚ or child abuse to be absolutely immoral regardless of the situations or beliefs of a culture that engages in these practices. Moral absolutism adopts the theory
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IS MEDIA DETERIORATING OUR MORAL VALUES? I believe that moral values‚ being the difference between rights and wrongs are always traced back in ones religion and they always exist within ones self not in media. The conduct of human beings living in societies which include inward activities like motive and desire as well as outward activities like speech and movements of the doer’s limbs is judged to be right or wrong‚ to be good or bad by Personal ethics-the set of ones ethical commitments usually
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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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Experts in nutrition consider liquid vitamins to be a remarkable breakthrough in the domain. This is one of the reasons which may explain the lately outburst of liquid supplement advertising. But what makes liquid vitamins better than their pill equivalents? First and foremost‚ it is a matter of absorption. The liquids are chewable tablets which are being absorbed quicker by the body. It is estimated that the absorption
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1. What is a moral dilemma? A genuine dilemma is one type of moral problem‚ captured by the expression “You’re damned if you do‚ damned if you don’t.” That is‚ in a dilemma‚ there appears to be no right answer or solution (Dreisbach‚ 2008). Moral dilemmas‚ at the very least‚ involve conflicts between moral requirements (McConnell‚ 2010). 3. The four questions that must be asked to establish if a Dirty Harry Problem exists are: Did the agent know the situation and the choices that it offers
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Neutrality is a word that can take on several meanings‚ all based on the context of its usage. Neutral has meanings ranging from uninvolved in a conflict such as a war‚ or simply implying a blandness. The meaning that pertains most to this prescribed essay title‚ and the one that shall be taken as the primary definition is that of moral neutrality.
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Violence 68% say they hit someone because they were angry in the past year (46% did so at least twice)‚ and nearly half (47%) said they could get a gun if they wanted to (for males: 60% say they could get a gun). Are today’s youth really in a state of moral decay? What do all these statistics mean? Well‚ for starters‚ they mean that something has to change! Attitudes like these are shocking in any age group but when they come from young people they are also heartbreaking. Aside from the fact that the
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MORAL PHILOSOPHY What is moral philosophy ? Moral philosophy is the branch of philosophy that is concerned with ethics. Ethics can be defined as the study of right and wrong in human endeavours‚ it helps one to answer such questions as what is the proper course of action in a given situation‚ what one should do ? It helps us identify the moral correctness of our conduct. From the very dawn of philosophy right up until this very day‚ ethics has been at the very core of the rational thinkers cognizance
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surprise party to honking at a car that cuts you off‚ virtually every one of our voluntary actions must first undergo some sort of moral processing that tells us whether it is okay or not to do. As expected‚ this moral processing varies from culture to culture and is the basis of many of the culturally specific traditions and laws that we see today. However‚ this moral disagreement across cultures is so distinct that many intellectuals‚ especially in this current generation‚ have elected to believe
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