Moral hazard

the side of moral objectivism would say that this statement is true and that we share a deeply rooted ethical code no matter our background. However, moral subjectivists, such as Mackie, would disagree with this statement on the grounds that moral judgements are simply “equivalent to reports of the speaker’s own feeling or attitudes” (Mackie, 779). Mackie uses several theories in his writing to at least to counter the belief of objective morals by using Cultural…

First, principle of universalism justifies the moral subprinciple of the voluntary association. A married couple forms a kind of volunteer group, like the football team example mentioned above, and the freedom component of universalism justified any rules or preferences set up between couples. Second…

destroys the idea of moral progress and social change. We could not say that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed society for the better as that would be judging the social standards of another time. What happens then to someone who wishes to challenge their society’s moral codes? Their argument is immediately shut down by cultural relativism. “There are some moral rules that all societies must have in common, because those rules are necessary for society to exist” (Rachels 36). Not every moral code…

achievements there are lingering questions on why we make certain actions and not others. There must be a way to find the source of our morals because we seem to make similar actions through time. Many of the attempts to name what the source of our morality are rejected due to dilemmas and challenged premises, but strongest among them all is Moral Relativism. The argument for Moral Relativism is the strongest argument for discovering what grounds morality but this argument is especially…

“But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart” (271). In Orson Scott Card’s, Speaker for the Dead, we are met yet again with Ender Wiggin, on a foreign planet, with foreign people, a new foreign alien species, and one he has carried with…

cultures do not have the right to take offense to another culture’s beliefs. This means that morals that may seem correct in one culture may be considered morally wrong by another culture. An argument against cultural relativism would be that if Cultural Relativism were considered to be fact societies could not criticize their own culture meaning there could be no change in culture. In “The Elements of Moral Philosophy” by Rachels, Cultural Relativism is explained by using real world cultural…

the years, many philosophers had come up with several ideas of ethical guidelines, including Utilitarianism, Kant’s Moral Theory, Virtue Ethics, and Moral Pluralism. As human cultures continued to evolve, so did the standard of ethics, giving philosophers harder time to “define” the right and wrong actions. When setting the criteria of right or wrong in daily lives, the theory of Moral Pluralism, which emphasizes on duty of a person to serve good, can…

People from different moral and religious backgrounds, interesting characters and personalities. Respect is a very important attribute to have, respectfulness allows the understanding and appreciation of the different ideas and opinions that are being brought across. This also…

believes that there are many moral standards. They believe that, “any morality…is relative to the age, the place, and the circumstances to which it is found” (96). I would argue, however, that ethics are instead absolute. An absolutist believes that there is only one true moral code and it is the same for all people, in all places, across all times. Throughout this essay I will draw from W.T. Stace’s The Concept of Morals to prove that ethics are absolute because without one moral code we could…

over and discussed topics. Decided whether it is moral or immoral is strictly up to the individual person. To the boyfriend, he obviously sees the operation as insignificant, and not morally wrong. ““It’s really a simple operation jig” the man said “it’s really not an operation at all”” (E. Hemingway). While you see…