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Ethical Subjectivism |
What is morally right and wrong is simply a matter of personal opinion what may be right for you may be wrong for me depending on our respective feelings. |
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Opinion |
Statement that expresses how a person feels. |
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Ethical subjectivism is not a tolerance for individual differencs |
Tolerance is a universal moral principle and ethical subjectivists reject the existence of moral principles. |
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Emotivism |
states that all moral statements are meaningless and that there are no universal standards of moral truth; ethical subjectivism claims there are no objective moral truths |
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Ethical skepticism |
states that we cannot know with certainty that there are no objective truths: ethical subjectivism claims there are no objective moral truths. |
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Romantic sentimentalism |
emphasizes the inner person and the innate goodness of people, Jean Jaques Rousseau's ethical subjectivism based on this. |
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Values clarification/ values neutral approach |
ethics education term based on romantic sentimentalism |
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Sociopath |
person without conscience who acts solely on his or her feelings without concern for universal moral principles and sentiments, thusly true ethical subjectivists. |
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Mary Wollstonecraft |
disagreed w/ Rousseau's romantic sentimentalism, arguing that reason is more important to morality than individual feelings and that there are universal moral principles |
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Kitty Genovese syndrome |
involves the failure of people to help another peson in distress. Some people suggest that the popularity of ethical subjectivism in out society has contributed to the breakdown of concern for others. |
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Fallacies of Ethical subjectivism |
Not only contains locigal inconsistencies as a moral theory but also justifies domination of the weak by the strong and leads to the breeakdown of community |
