Moral psychology

Antinomianism defines the concept that there are no binding moral laws. It assumes that everything is relative. For instance, the ethical system assumes lying is can be neither right nor wrong. Some of the basic beliefs of antinomianism includes that there are no God given moral regulation and laws. They also argue that there is no God or he has not set any standards on moral laws on the people. Another belief is that there are no timeless moral regulations and regulations (Singer, 2013). Thus,…

sense of wrong and rightfulness is referred to morals, but there are many different branches tied to the common ground of morals. One of the branches of morals is moral realism which states that there are “objective moral facts (Atheism And The City).” These are the morals that have been engraved into our conscience so it seems like it is common sense that wrongful actions are indeed wrongful and vice versa for rightful actions. While this branch of morals is based off of concrete facts,…

to help identify and understand moral panics. Thanks to Cohen’s and Young 's work it now allows for news stories to be properly assess and to help determine what is and what isn 't a moral panic. Which is very important because being able to skip to through all the nonsense that the news companies produces and find the real important issues that should be discussed is crucial. Moral panic involves cultural conflict, presented with stereotypically terms, the moral panic involves scientific…

Moral Cultural Relativism is based on the belief that there is no universal morality, it is based entirely on the traditions of the culture one lives in. This is a subject that is up for debate amongst philosophers. While there can never be a definite conclusion either way, many people have strong opinions on what they feels is the right form of relativism. Ruth Benedict’s theory of moral relativism is based in the common practices and beliefs of cultures. She describes morality as something…

cultures have different moral codes” (Rachel, pg 12). It follows from the facts that there is no objective “truth” in morality. Right and wrong are only matters of opinion, and opinions vary from culture to culture. Indicating that there is a culturally neutral standard of right and wrong by which we can judge between two societies. Rachel…

Moral relativism is a commonly held position among many. This could be due to the regard for the value of tolerance or the truth in descriptive moral relativism. But my argument will be against meta-ethical moral relativism: there exists moral truths but these truths are not absolutes but relative. If morality is relative, there is no ultimate right or wrong. Because, there isn’t an objective point of reference to differentiate between right and wrong. If one were to examine subjective morals,…

stated his stand regarding the cultural judgment of the “excision” he stated that we, all of the cultures should have at least some of our values or moral codes that each culture has in common. Rachels gives the example of Murder and lying to make his point that we all have some moral codes or virtues that are universal by stating “…there are some moral rules that all societies must have in common, because those rules are necessary for society to exist. The rules against lying and murder are…

they believe to be true to them. Ethical Relativism hypothesizes that beliefs might be different for every individual, simply because different people believe different things to be true. Ethical Relativism establishes that there are no moral absolutes and no morals are right or wrong. I believe that ethical relativism is not true and the reason I believe this is because it is conflicting to say the same rule is to be considered right in one society and wrong in another. If “right” and…

theory that Shaw examines is how morality is relative to one’s own culture. Some people believe that what is right and what is wrong is solely determined by what the culture says it is. The only way an action could be judged would be based on the moral system of society that it occurred in. For example, in the text it states “Abortion is condemned in Catholic Spain but practiced as a morally neutral form of birth control in Japan.” In this event abortion being condemned in Spain and being…

Philosopher and academic Alan Levinovitz recently offered a think-piece on the use of relativism in public discourse. In it, he makes solid claims against a certain kind of strong relativism, in which any kind of moral evaluation is thought to be unwise. But thankfully, relativism is a more capacious idea, and can help show us how to be more persuasive in our arguments against Trump. Specifically, Levinovitz lambasts “cultural relativism,” which he loosely defines as “reluctance to take one…