Introduction
What does subjectivism in ethics mean? Subjectivism means that in the least theories maintaining moral judgments are statements regarding the emotional or mental responses of the individual or the community. It can similarly mean that some of the theories holding that certain situations of thought or feeling are the utmost best. Simple subjectivism can be well-defined as the view of moral judgments that are true in relation to the individual to which who speaks of them. For us to say that a certain behavior is wrong, is to express one 's belief and not a recommendation. This composition is going to develop a theory of subjectivism and critically and analytically assess how persuasive and believable the argument for it is. I will …show more content…
The first argument is the argument that ethical egoism endorses wickedness. This might be one-sided to ethical egoism because in saying that these actions are wicked, it takes up a non-egoistic conception of wickedness. The second argument is the argument that ethical egoism is logically inconsistent. It states that it is each person 's responsibility to do what is in their own best interest, but it is in the wrong to prevent someone from doing their duty. Therefore, the assumption with which we started that it is each person 's duty to do what is in their own best interest cannot be true. The last argument is that of the argument that ethical egoism is unacceptably arbitrary. This argument attempts to give details on why the interests of other people should matter to us. We should treat people in the same way, if there is a respectable reason not to. Ethical egoism is a moral theory that sponsors the separating the world into two classifications of people, ourselves and everyone else, and desires us to respect the interests of those in the first group as more important than the interests of those in the second group. This just indicates that we need to care about the interests of other people because their needs and desires are as well as to our own. (Rachels
What does subjectivism in ethics mean? Subjectivism means that in the least theories maintaining moral judgments are statements regarding the emotional or mental responses of the individual or the community. It can similarly mean that some of the theories holding that certain situations of thought or feeling are the utmost best. Simple subjectivism can be well-defined as the view of moral judgments that are true in relation to the individual to which who speaks of them. For us to say that a certain behavior is wrong, is to express one 's belief and not a recommendation. This composition is going to develop a theory of subjectivism and critically and analytically assess how persuasive and believable the argument for it is. I will …show more content…
The first argument is the argument that ethical egoism endorses wickedness. This might be one-sided to ethical egoism because in saying that these actions are wicked, it takes up a non-egoistic conception of wickedness. The second argument is the argument that ethical egoism is logically inconsistent. It states that it is each person 's responsibility to do what is in their own best interest, but it is in the wrong to prevent someone from doing their duty. Therefore, the assumption with which we started that it is each person 's duty to do what is in their own best interest cannot be true. The last argument is that of the argument that ethical egoism is unacceptably arbitrary. This argument attempts to give details on why the interests of other people should matter to us. We should treat people in the same way, if there is a respectable reason not to. Ethical egoism is a moral theory that sponsors the separating the world into two classifications of people, ourselves and everyone else, and desires us to respect the interests of those in the first group as more important than the interests of those in the second group. This just indicates that we need to care about the interests of other people because their needs and desires are as well as to our own. (Rachels