APA format. 1. What is the difference between a moral judgment and an aesthetic judgment? · The difference between moral judgment and an aesthetic judgment is that moral judgment determines what is considered right or wrong based on one’s feelings, which is influenced mainly by religious beliefs and upbringing. Aesthetic judgment, on the other hand, judges the beauty and status of objects. 2. Define cultural relativism. · Cultural relativism is a theory that knowledge is related to the limited
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Ethical egoism is a normative ethical theory that assumes that people have a choice; that is, one is not always psychologically bound to act in one’s self-interest (Cavico & Mujtaba, 2013, p. 47). The idea behind ethical egoism is that the right and moral thing to do is look out for your own self-interest. It does not describe how people behave, rather, it describes how people "ought" to behave (Kang). While this might offer the egoist short-term satisfaction, it could make his/her life worse in the
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One of the main issues being the belief in moral relativism. This is a very dangerous worldview because if there is no absolute standard for people to live by, then people make their own. And while the Judeo-Christian value system is still the foundation for our civil laws, it is becoming increasingly
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of the same thing at the same exact time but it’s just a coincidence. We forget that morals vary from the wide variety of cultures, people, and practically the universe. Morality is merely just good vs. Bad. It is one of the many theories that fall under the Divine command theory. The divine command theory states
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Along with demonstrating culture relativism is Saddam Hussein an example of ethical subjectivism? Why or why not? 2. If a cultural relativist lived in a culture that deemed ethnic cleansing and genocide morally unacceptable. For that cultural relativist would it be morally acceptable to
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The focal motivation for consumer misbehavior is value. 5. Other consumers may suffer while misbehaving consumers break societal norms and laws. 6. Moral equity represent beliefs regarding an act’s fairness or justness. 7. A consumer’s moral beliefs are comprised of two components: norms and relativism. 8. Relativism refers to beliefs about the violation of written or unwritten laws. 9. Equity reflects beliefs about the social acceptability of an act. 10. When a
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RELATIVISM AND MORALITY Week 2 Assignment Sarah Knight SOC120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Prof. Thomas Reeder November 4, 2013 Relativism and Morality Moral choices are conducted on a daily basis, by every culture, which can be viewed on an ethical scale of right or wrong, by other cultures. In her writing of “Some Moral Minima”, Lenn E. Goodman views several aspects of morality and relativism, and argues that certain things are just wrong. In presenting my own
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on ethical values, it brings me a good argument about the definitions of morality and ethics. According to the textbook, ethical relativism and ethical objectivism are two different principles (Lawhead, 2010). Ethical relativism states that the human option decides a person's standpoints to judge if a conduct is ethical or not, while ethical objectivism states the moral principles, which is universally acceptable regardless of the individual and society, do exist and it is objective (2010). These
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Virtues with intention centering on moral fiber is characteristically viewed as disposition to conduct ones self in customs which render the weak in aggressive circumstances. For example, a truthful individual is inclined to telling the truth upon requested. These dispositions are characteristically looked upon as comparatively steady and elongated. Further, they are also typically understood to be robust consistent across a wide-spectrum of conditions. We are unlikely, for example, to think that
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Theory of Knowledge: Ethics & Moral Reasoning When we argue about ethical questions, there are two things we often look at: whether people are being consistent in their judgments, and whether the alleged facts on which those judgments are based are true. Consistency: to what extent do you think the following individuals are morally inconsistent? • A vegetarian who buys leather shoes • A public school teacher who educates her children at private schools. • A politician who
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