Ethics and Moral Code: Are There Right or Wrong Actions
Chernice Washington
Student I.D.:0020291776
October 02,2016¬¬
Philosophy 1020
Professor: Ian Young
Words: 1,000+
Majority of society today believes that slavery is wrong. A utilitarian would argue slavery is wrong because it is the action that causes the most amount of suffering and the greatest overall amount of dissatisfaction. Viewing slavery as a whole means that a person is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. Subjectivism states that whether slavery is right or wrong is only dependent of a culture’s viewpoint. “If the culture’s moral code says slavery is wrong, then it really is wrong within that culture and if another culture’s moral code says it is right, …show more content…
P: If humans cannot be the author of the moral law, then God is its author.
C: Therefore, God is the author of the moral law.”
God is the creator of all things also making him the creator of morality. Refuting the Euthyphro Dilemma and arguing the Divine Command Theory, God has reasons to support his commands and they are not arbitrary. These reasons, rather than the Euthyphro Dilemma, are what makes actions right or wrong. According to some cultural groups moral code, slavery is right. In other cultural groups moral code, slavery is wrong. Therefore, there is no objective truth about whether slavery is morally right or wrong. Cultures make their own moral rules but, in a way culture becomes god. “In their worldview, Cultural Relativists believe that the truth about ultimate reality is that:
• No absolute truth exists, or we cannot know absolute truth
Thus, the role of God (ultimate reality) is filled by a person’s culture; your culture sets all the standards for right and wrong, rather than God. Your culture determines truth. Culture takes the place of God”. This is where I disagree. if there is no ultimate reality making the rules, then there are no rules. The presence of ‘moral rules’ is nothing more than what the powerful in each culture have declared or what people made
Chernice Washington
Student I.D.:0020291776
October 02,2016¬¬
Philosophy 1020
Professor: Ian Young
Words: 1,000+
Majority of society today believes that slavery is wrong. A utilitarian would argue slavery is wrong because it is the action that causes the most amount of suffering and the greatest overall amount of dissatisfaction. Viewing slavery as a whole means that a person is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. Subjectivism states that whether slavery is right or wrong is only dependent of a culture’s viewpoint. “If the culture’s moral code says slavery is wrong, then it really is wrong within that culture and if another culture’s moral code says it is right, …show more content…
P: If humans cannot be the author of the moral law, then God is its author.
C: Therefore, God is the author of the moral law.”
God is the creator of all things also making him the creator of morality. Refuting the Euthyphro Dilemma and arguing the Divine Command Theory, God has reasons to support his commands and they are not arbitrary. These reasons, rather than the Euthyphro Dilemma, are what makes actions right or wrong. According to some cultural groups moral code, slavery is right. In other cultural groups moral code, slavery is wrong. Therefore, there is no objective truth about whether slavery is morally right or wrong. Cultures make their own moral rules but, in a way culture becomes god. “In their worldview, Cultural Relativists believe that the truth about ultimate reality is that:
• No absolute truth exists, or we cannot know absolute truth
Thus, the role of God (ultimate reality) is filled by a person’s culture; your culture sets all the standards for right and wrong, rather than God. Your culture determines truth. Culture takes the place of God”. This is where I disagree. if there is no ultimate reality making the rules, then there are no rules. The presence of ‘moral rules’ is nothing more than what the powerful in each culture have declared or what people made