about the second premise ‘Objective moral values do exist’. What we generally mean by ‘Objective’ is not being influenced by opinions or feelings. Thus‚ objective moral values mean the moral values that are not affected by different opinions of individuals or societies. However‚ most of moral behaviors are strongly influenced by cultures or individual opinions. What is moral or immoral depends on the culture‚ on the person‚ and on the era. There is no objective moral values that are absolute. The exact
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idea that there are‚ or even can be‚ objective moral truths‚ and exposits Mackie’s ‘moral relativist’ stance. I intend also in this essay to criticise the idea of moral objectivity‚ and to deal with the objections that could be potentially raised to a relativist stance. The most obvious task‚ it would seem‚ to begin with when assessing the idea of moral objectivity‚ is to come to an understanding about what is literally meant by ‘an objective moral truth’. The word objective immediately brings to
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three questions. Theory What moral statements express What moral statements describe What makes moral statements true or false Objective moral facts: Objective wrongness of torturing kittens. Objective moral facts: Objective wrongness of torturing kittens. Moral code of speaker’s culture: Disapproval of torturing kittens by speaker’s culture. Moral code of person’s culture (not necessarily speaker). Disapproval of torturing kittens by that person’s culture. Any objective moral facts?
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relativism Some people may argue that‚ “what’s right/moral in my eyes‚ may not be right/moral in your eyes”. This is considered individual moral relativism. Cultural moral relativism is putting culture at the top of relative ethical decision-making. (Argosy University‚ 2014). These two different moral relativisms differ in the fact that one is putting what you believe first and the other is putting your culture first. I believe that individual moral relativism has some strengths‚ and some weaknesses
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| |Identify each claimant (key actor) who has an interest in the outcome of this ethical issue. From the perspective of the moral | |agent—the individual contemplating an ethical course of action—what obligation is owed to the claimant? Why? | |Claimant |Obligation (owed to the|Perspective (What does the claimant hope will happen?)
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disagree on moral values (on some level) with those who stay in Omelas. Those who walk away disagree with the price the town pays for happiness. They do not want to destroy the town’s utopia but at the same time they do not want to be a part of that system. Those who walk away from Omelas are not Ethical Relativists because they disagree with the town’s (that culture’s) moral philosophy. Ethical Relativists believe that each culture’s morality is moral within itself; each culture has its own moral codes
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He talks about it and discuss’ what they should of done‚ teaches them morals. Atticus is teaching his kids very important life lessons throughout their life with them not seeing it sometimes. He is trying to teach his kids right from wrong so they know‚ not just society’s standard. “Jem she is old and ill. You can’t hold her
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Josh Sarna Homework 2 1. What are some of the essential features of the FDICIA of 1991 with regard to the resolution of failing Depository Institutions? The essential features of the FDICIA of 1991 with regard to failing depository institutions include making it difficult for a depository institution’s failure to be delayed‚ as long as systematic risk isn’t determined. Systemic risk is the risk of the failure of the depository institution affecting the entire financial system in a negative way
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what the morals of individual cultures say. Others‚ such as James Rachels‚ believe that there is a universal code of ethics that transcends the moral codes of individual cultures. In his essay‚ “Morality is Not Relative”‚ Rachels discusses ethical relativism‚ or as he calls it “Cultural Relativism”‚ and the logical problems that are associated with this code. Cultural
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utility. In assessing a moral theory there are four adequate criteria which are: completeness‚ explanatory‚ practicability and moral conformation. For completeness‚ an ethical theory should support all meaningful moral claims‚ neglecting none of the claims. Next‚ there is explanatory power. For this assessment a theory should provide insight into what makes something moral or immoral. As for practicability‚ the theory should be useful to us in actual practice. Lastly‚ for moral conformation‚ it should
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