into account when it comes to helping. He argues that it makes no moral difference whether the person you help is a neighbor ten yards away or a person in another country (Singer‚ 1972‚ p. 231-232). Singer also wants you to take into consideration that the principles don’t make a distinction between people. It doesn’t matter that it is just you or you and a million others in the same position. If someone is doing nothing‚ in moral terms‚ it is no different than the absence of people doing something
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Philosophical ethics are an attempt to define moral action. Theories try to answer questions such as ‘what is a moral action?’ and ‘how should men act?’ In the case of classical theories the main question is ‘What is the good life? We all grow up learning our ethics‚ or morals‚ from our parents and society. As we grow we are told things; do not cross the road alone‚ clean your room. But there are a set of instructions that we are told‚ and we grow to learn that they have quite a different motive
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Moral Minima In the article “Some Moral Minima‚” Lee E. Goodman goes into depth in what he describes and defines to believe are four large acts of moral dilemma that are present in our society today. “(1) Genocide‚ politically induced famine‚ and germ warfare; (2) terrorism‚ hostage taking. And child warriors; (3) slavery‚ Polygamy‚ and incest; and (4) rape and female genital cutting.” (Goodman‚ 2010‚ pg 88) The four truths are described in detail and various ways when it comes to each cultures
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Moral Judgements Jakob Bronowski’s book‚ "Science and Human Values" argues that the scientific method of inquiry into reality provides a generally applicable foundation for moral judgement. Bronowski says‚ "in order to keep the study in a manageable field. I will continue to choose a society in which the principle of truth rules. Therefore the society which I will examine is that formed by scientists themselves: it is the body of scientists" (Bronowski 58). Bronowski makes it clear in his book
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role of education is to teach facts‚ not morals.” Certainly‚ teachers have a long list of responsibilities every day. The most important one of course is enriching the minds of our children. A large amount of their time is spent with teachers throughout the week and they become one of children’s biggest influences. Sure‚ their major responsibility is to teach them reading‚ writing and arithmetic‚ they also have an obligation to encourage the right morals as well. In many cases teachers become
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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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