Ethics and Moral Reasoning Katrina Pride Instructor: Thomas MacCarty December 10‚ 2012 In Peter Singer’s article “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality‚ he gives what seems to be a devastating outline of our normal way of thinking concerning the relief of the famine‚ charity and morality in general. Only a small number of people accepted‚ or even acted upon the conclusions that he shared. The enlightenment of these facts someone may make the statement or argument such as Hume did in the likeness
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Abortion There are many people in this world that are strongly against the act of abortion‚ such as Republicans and most religions. I on the other hand‚ am not one of those people. Yes I believe in God and that the gift of life is precious‚ but I also believe in the mother’s having a choice on whether or not they want to be responsible for a human being. There are many valid reasons as to why a woman would consider having an abortion‚ and each reason is extremely important and should not be looked
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Relativist Morality is unfair discuss Relativist morality could be seen as unfair‚ when looked at closely and seen from critics’ point of view it becomes clear that it is easy to question perhaps because of its weakness as a moral system. The weakness could somewhat be perceived as making Relativist morality unfair. A relativist cannot pass judgement but yet to be true to their name ‘relativist’ they would be practising ‘do not pass judgement’ thus they are preaching to others that they should
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experience has affected my ethical thinking. Interpretation According to my results‚ I tend to base my ethical perspective in what is good to be rather than what is good to do. This is correct; I strongly believe that ethics focus in ways to achieve moral excellence. I know that our actions are the reflection of our character‚ but at the same time I believe that we must look beyond the actions to determine the individual’s character. Our actions can be motivated or influenced by different circumstances:
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public take their moral views from the ones round them and only a minority suppose via moral concepts for themselves. Fifth stage is Social contract orientation. This is when the child/person becomes aware that even as guidelines/laws might exist for the good of the best range‚ there are times while they may paintings against the interest of particular individuals. Sixth stage is Universal ethical principle orientation. Human beings at this stage have advanced their very own set of moral pointers which
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Ethics is our morals‚ it help us determine from the right and the wrong behavior‚ and helps us determine the good from the bad in the human character‚ but it is also something that has to be constantly updated‚ "Ethics and character are absolute values that we cannot take for granted. They must be constantly reinforced." (Hagel). Advanced technology in the military is very debatable when it comes to an ethical perspective because the military involves lives of individuals it deals with morals. Some may
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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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