Relativism

These nine positons are broken down into three groups: Positons 1-3 are called Dualism, Positions 4-6 are Relativism, and Positions 7-9 are Commitments (Perry, 1999). So where do students start off or end in Perry’s Scheme? Basically, first year students start of in the Dualistic, and as they go through their college career, they move onto the Relativism and then finally Commitment positions (Perry, 1999). This paper will go into a bit more detail of each position for the sake…

The argument comes down to relativism, because unlike Americans, the people of San Lopegattia have become accustom to eating contaminated food. Therefore the people of San Lopegattia have developed higher levels of natural immunity to parasites and bacteria, like salmonella, resulting…

It diminishes ethnocentrism because it gives you a chance to see other cultures, without comparing it to your own and gives people a chance to explain why they do things. It is being objective to a culture. One way that cultural relativism can be implemented at Central is by putting a food from around the world in the cafeteria that people can eat every friday. To start off easier too, with a more normal seeming food, then, work more “unusual” food in. This would help diminish ethnocentrism…

Virtue Ethics (Individualism) and Care Ethics (Collectivism) Virtue ethics or Individualism is having the excellence of moral; righteousness, responsibility, and other exemplary qualities. Care ethics, or feminist theory, states that women and men have different ethical practices. However, no one person, man or woman, is better or superior to another. Individualism is inner power and strength, whereas collectivism is societal assistance for improvement or advancement. Discuss Aristotle’s…

During my time spent in retail and an office environment, I have observed a common theme that happens at the end of every year. The common saying “Merry Christmas”, has been replaced with the saying “Happy Holidays”. Growing up, as far back as I can remember, the day after Thanksgiving; me and my parents would wake up and put up our Christmas tree, lights, and Christmas decorations. The last decoration that always went up was a sign that lit up and read “Merry Christmas”, that would be put up…

knife). However, someone who uses applied ethics, would deny the existence of objective words that can be categorized into right or wrong since everything depends on the situation. These two ways of expressing morality can be named as realism and relativism. Realism, the normative view on ethical language, states that there are “building blocks” that are not liable to variation. Therefore, if something is said to be wrong, it is because it is truly wrong, not because it has been labeled that way…

According to Andersen Margaret and Taylor Howard in their book titled the Essential of sociology, Ethnocentrism is judging people or things based on our own beliefs, cultures and experiences. On the other hand, Cultural relativism stipulates that there is nothing right or wrong if we see things based on the cultural context. September 11th was a very devastating day in America due to the destruction of the world trade Centre and the loss of thousands souls. Ethnocentrism might have contributed…

What cheating does to a person morally is destroy them from inside. That cancer eats at you by the watering down of your principles and integrity. By the end you are viewed by those close to you as less than what they wanted you to be. Moral relativism says that anything goes, because life is ultimately without meaning. Fair, ugly or just outright cheating, everyone one at some point in their life is going to be faced with the dilemma of making that choice. The drive to be successful in…

I apologize for the late submission, I have had an extremely busy week. 1. Nietzsche’s eternal return is the theory that we should live our lives making decisions based on whether we would be willing to return and repeat our same choices repeatedly. It forces us to ask ourselves: is this a decision I want to live with forever? If I had to make that same choice again, would I do it? We all have different things that are important to us, and in his theory, we should be making decisions that we…

Abstract This report was commissioned to examine the home building company, Fischer Homes, and their current hiring of subcontractors who hire undocumented workers. The intent of this report is to provide an analysis and evaluation of the current actions taking place inside of Fischer Homes. Methods of analysis will include an ethical analysis that will apply the current situation to multiple theories; this will help Fischer Homes to solve the problem at hand. After much research, this report…