Moral relativism

Stepheny Saavedra Anthropology 340 Dec. 1, 2016 “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” is one of the many cases that exemplify the barriers and obstacles people from distinct cultures encounter due to their ethnocentrism and lack of cultural relativism. After escaping to the U.S., a place completely different from what they called home, the Lees had to adapt and place their trust on strangers (to save their daughter) who viewed a condition with spiritual origin to the Hmong as a…

Both Hobbes’ and Locke have very different descriptions of what morality in the state of nature would be like. People could argue that in Hobbes’ description of the state of nature morality is not necessarily a concern. People do not do things based on right and wrong, they do what pleases them. While Locke argues that everyone is give, at birth, a set of natural rights and obligations. All though in some instances there state of nature could be described as the same, how people’s morality plays…

Big Harold is one of trust, acceptance, respect and grace. This chapter displays a relationship between two individuals with a difference of beliefs and morals. Big Harold can be characterized as a traditionalist, he sees his morals as valid while others are wrong. The young boy can be characterized as mutual respect. He knows his beliefs and morals and the difference that Harold holds to, yet he continues to develop a relationship built on acceptance and grace. Trust was built at a young age…

The conscious application of utilitarianism given the day to day moral dilemmas people face regularly always includes an unwavering choice to avoid any displeasure that may introduce itself while actively choosing pleasure and happiness regardless of decision consequence. The egocentric notion commonly associated with the utilitarian approach to common moral dilemmas remains among the most identifiable traits associated with the utilitarian concept given the resolution to consistently avoid the…

Leading citizens the right to claim that they didn’t realize the law. Through Collodi’s Pinocchio kids learned early the stories based on laws and morals which taught that being a well-behaved individual will get you out of sticky and unfortunate situations. A main cultural value for Italians was the perception of the public from an outsider looking in. This was made quite evident in Book II of the…

are no morals. In today’s world, our morals are defined to a large extent by religion. The battle between good versus evil goes back to the creation of the world. In religious cases, it goes beyond that. In our society, evil takes a different form each day. It could manifest itself in an individual robbing a store for purposes known only to it or in the massacre of thousands of lives by a group whose staunch faith in their religion leads them to commit such violence justifying their moral…

would return the money to the woman. Morals are internal principles that people live by, it’s the right from the wrong, it’s the justified versus the unjustified. As infants, adolescents, teens and adults, we are all instilled with various morals that change and shift as time passes. Was I born with the morals I have now, did my upbringing shape my ethical code, or did I learn it through social interactions? Whichever way I learned right from wrong, my morals cover a wide expanse of various…

A tragic hero is a character within a literary work that possesses a tragic flaw that will ultimately incur the downfall of the character, regardless of the character’s good intentions. Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent tragic heroes throughout all works of literature. Macbeth is a tragic hero as he possesses noble stature, a tragic flaw, free choice, an increased awareness of his downfall, and a punishment that exceeds his crimes, all…

by which humans regulate whether given actions, are right or wrong.” Moral values and graciousness, in the past, were prominent in most teenagers. Every man has the potential for growth. But a seed cannot grow without nurturing. And farmers don’t get to neglect their crops. So moral values are implanted from infancy. Childhood is the time at which moral standards begin to develop…

“The best index of a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.” I consider this quote by Abigail VanBuren to be very true. What it means is that we can determine someone’s character based on how they treat others. People who will only do good for someone who would return the favor have bad character. Someone like this would take advantage of others to get to where they want to go in life, only having shallow relationships…