the most prominent are ethical objectivism and ethical relativism. Ethical objectivism and ethical relativism may hold the same amount of influence in the philosophical world‚ but the two theories are complete opposites in where they place the authority for ethical decision. Although ethical relativism provides a subjectivity that can be helpful in preventing ethical conflicts between cultures and individuals‚ in reality ethical objectivism provides a better basis for ethical decision due to the fact
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The Cause and Effect of Teenage Pregnancy Each year‚ over seven hundred and fifty thousand teenage girls become pregnant. The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the world followed by Slovakia‚ Hungary and New Zealand. Teenage pregnancy costs the American taxpayers 9.1 billion a year due to health‚ foster care‚ and social services (Porta). The teen pregnancy epidemic affects not only the parents‚ the children and their families; it also affects society as a whole. How can we
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Communicating in Groups Activity(5 points) Chapter 9 pg 298 Activity #2 Be prepared to discuss your answers to this activity in class. A failure to discuss will result in a 0 for this assignment. Make sure the work you submit is typed and stapled. Group and Individual Goals. Think about 2 groups to which you belong. 1. What are your task-related goals in each? · The two groups that I am going to speak on is my chorus group that I was a part of in high school and the basketball team that
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William H. Shaw: Ethical Relativism Ethical relativism is a concept in which most simple minded individuals adhere to. According to definition in the chapter‚ ethical relativism is the normative theory that what is right is what the culture or individual says is right. Shaw argues that it is not very plausible to say that ethical relativism is determined by what a person thinks is right and wrong. He gives reason that it “collapses the distinction between thinking something is right and it’s actually
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Teenage Pregnancy: Who’s To Blame? Over the past 10 years‚ teenage pregnancy has escalated about 10%. As the years pass‚ more blames for teen pregnancy come up. The first few years that teen pregnancy became a problem‚ the people blamed the girl that became pregnant. Then as it progressed worse and worse‚ the blame pointed to the father of the unborn child. When the movie “Juno” came out in around 2009 that became blame. Then came “16 and pregnant” and “Teen Mom”. Hollywood started glamorizing teen
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varies with the customs and the beliefs of the family. Ethical relativism is one of the philosophical theories that assert that the vindication of morality is relative to one’s culture. The fact that whether an action or value is morally upright is dependent on the norm of the society. The action proven as morally upright in one society can be proven as wrong or right with another. This underscores a critical discussion on the theory of ethical relativity according to Pojman. The philosophy
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going to college. For many young adults‚ especially for young women‚ teen pregnancy stands in the way of or postpones reaching the higher education levels needed for earning a higher income. Only a few teen mothers continue to pursue a college degree and as a result‚ those without a college degree earn significantly less than their counterparts that had children after the age of twenty. Though teen pregnancy has seen
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Abortion‚ an option of Teen Pregnancy As soon as I woke up today‚ I turned the TV on‚ there was this news program where the conductors were talking about teen pregnancy. They were having calls from real girls who became pregnant at a young age. It surprised me that Lourdes‚ who is now 46‚ called saying she had an abortion when she was 16‚ since then she hasn’t been able to have kids. Teen pregnancy has become all too common in this day and age. Some teens think it will not happen
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Self-Awareness in Teen Pregnancy and Vulnerable Populations. Robert Stoll University of Phoenix Health Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Population NUR/440 Shamar Walker August 31‚ 2012 Self-Awareness in Teen Pregnancy and Vulnerable Populations. Vulnerable populations are groups that are not well integrated into the health care system because of ethnic‚ cultural‚ economic‚ geographic‚ or health characteristics ("Vulnerable populations‚" 2010‚ para. 1). Teen pregnancy falls into this
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case of relativism‚ we can simply say that your opinion is true and mine too and nothing being wrong with that. On the other hand‚ ethical absolutism tells us that there is an objective moral code and that certain of our actions as humans are necessarily right or wrong. What would happen if we say two contradictory statements can’t coexist as Aristotle demonstrated? Through the law of non-contradiction from Aristotle and ethical absolutism‚ I will argue against ethical relativism. In ethical absolutism
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