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The truth is relative
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Different people have different truths, therefore are no right or wrong truths.
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How can there be flaws in the idea of the truth being relative?
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2. We can never learn anything because we assume everything we already know is true.
3. Just because we disagree, it does not mean that one of us is not right and one of us is not wrong (or both of us are wrong). 4. No one can be wiser than anyone else. |
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What are the payoffs of truth being relative?
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1.I can resist responsibility for my actions.
2. I don’t need to worry about trying to find the truth. Whatever I think is true (of course this is only a benefit, if it is really true that the truth is relative). |
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What are some problems of false beliefs?
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We are not in touch with reality. if we have false beliefs, you're seeing the world or life as it really is.
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What are the costs of truth being relative?
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You can be easily harmed by things you don’t know or understand. Your inability to accept responsibility can cause your life to be very difficult.
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What is the fundamental Idea behind Moral Relativism?
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There is no ‘universal truth’ in morality. Ideas of right and wrong are merely opinions, and opinions vary from culture to culture
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What is a payoff of Moral Relativism?
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Since morals vary from culture to culture, there is really no moral truths, and you can do whatever you want.
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What is a cost of Moral Relativism?
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Since there are no fundamental moral truth there probably is no real meaning to life. For example: there is no reason to worship any god or gods because the only good reason to worship them is their actual moral goodness, but no such goodness exists.
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What are some reasons to think that Moral Relativism is fundamentally flawed?
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1. we cannot criticize obviously bad behavior on the part of the other societies.
2. Disagreement does not lead to relativism 3.We cannot criticize our own society 4. We are not able to judge behaviors in the past as immoral |
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What is the Form of the Good?
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The Form of the Good is the ultimate object of knowledge; it is only once one grasps the Form of the Good that one reaches the highest grade of cognitive activity,
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What is a Form according to Plato?
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An aspect of reality beyond the one which we can see. This aspect of reality, the intelligible realm, is comprised of unchanging, eternal, absolute entities.
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What is an allegory
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A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; it’s also the figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.
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What is the major question in the Euthyphro dilemma?
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Does God command the good because it is good, or is it good because it is commanded by God?
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What is the Divine Command Theory?
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Divine command theory holds that morality is all about doing God’s will.
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