Moral hazard

Relativism Name: Jun Hao Li Word Count: 1319 Prompt you are responding to: Prompt (3) In Defense of Relativism Intro: The philosophical view of relativism states that the moral codes of a culture are all products of the society’s upbringing and that there is no moral code that is superior to another moral code because of the drastically different cultures each society possesses. Therefore, relativists believe it is intolerant of us to judge other cultural practices as immoral,…

morality itself. Metaethics is a branch of philosophy that analyzes moral values and focuses on the question “what is morality itself is?” (Pacillo-Dellino). Metaethics which is also referred to as “Second Order” has four basic stanzas that are called Four Basic Stanzas of Metaethics. The four basic stanzas of Metaethics are Absolutism, Objectivism, Cultural and Subjective Relativism, and Emotivism. Absolutism conveys to us that moral statements are absolutely and universally true and binding…

concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior by the Oxford Dictionary. How do we decide if something is wrong or right? It is obvious morality differs from culture to culture, that being said which culture contains the right moral code? The death penalty is a topic that has debated over for decades, and currently legal in thirty-one out of fifty states in the United States. When the question of morality comes into play, the death penalty violates the scarcity of…

crucial to first understand the meaning of objective morality. Like with many philosophical terms; by no means is there a definitive meaning of objective morality. Objective morality could be considered as an ideal of a system of ethics, with set moral judgements, is factually correct rather than just correct because of subjective opinion. The claim of being “objective” usually correlates to what a person believes to be subjectively true. The consensus on objective morality is that most believe…

system hold that human rights are universal and that anyone is entitled to them, regardless of intelligence, class, race, or sex (to name a few). According to Kant, Locke, Mills, and Rawls, an act is deemed ethical when it respects and protects the moral rights of anyone it affects (White & Taft, 2004). An example of those following this ethical perspective is the enacting of the Bill of Rights. This bill lays out what all people are entitled to and that there are no limitations to who has…

Throughout the case, there was ethical reasoning and the Six Pillar of Character that can overall hence why Navistar and Deloitte acted upon with their decisions at the end. The Six Pillar of Characters include fairness, truth, responsibility, care, respectfulness, and citizenship. Out of these six pillars, Navistar throughout the case missed out in the importance of complying with responsibility and the overall trust. They violated these two specific pillars of the group of Six pillars of…

4) There is a broad range of ethical theories that have differing perspectives on what is considered morally correct and incorrect. To begin, Virtue Ethics is based on virtuous character. Moral standards arise due to virtuous characters and their actions and beliefs. Aristotle is the main philosopher in Virtue Ethics, and he believed that in order to reach Eudaimonia, also known as happiness, it was imperative to develop virtues. Next, Thomas Aquinas is the main philosopher for the Natural Law…

convince his readers that when forming our beliefs in a certain way is of real ethical importance (Clifford, 2008). Moreover, Clifford expresses his belief that what we believe is not merely a private matter, but rather, a moral issue (Clifford, 2008). Furthermore, that it is a moral failure to form beliefs based on insufficient evidence (Clifford, 2008). Overall, Clifford expresses that we must utilize passionate nature in order to decide on an option between propositions while maintaining…

Sartre appears to be a moral relativist because he denies the traditional sources of moral objectivism such as the existence of God, existence of human “nature” and existence of a shared purpose. His rejection of moral relativism is coupled with a rejection of moral realism, the idea that moral facts are independent from the individual and have the ability to track a moral truth. Instead, values are created by the individual, “he makes himself by choosing his own morality, and his circumstances…

involving two or more moral imperatives where neither of the options is acceptable unambiguously. The complexity arises because of a situational conflict where selection of one alternative would lead to transgression of the other option. Ethical dilemmas are invoked to refute a moral code or make improvements to it so that a solution can be achieved. Numerous ethical dilemmas are often debated upon from different perspectives with basis of such arguments being religious, moral, cultural and…