Moral Absolutism and Moral Relativism

Question 0

what are rules that are always either right or wrong known as?

Answer 0

ethical absolutes

Question 1

what does moral absolutism argue?

Answer 1

some things are always right or wrong

• always
• for all people
• regardless of the situation

Question 2

ABSOLUTISM =

Answer 2

some things are right & other things are wrong, and that these things are fixed for all time & all people

Question 3

what are immoral acts?

Answer 3

intrinsically wrong

Question 4

what does intrinsically wrong mean?

Answer 4

wrong in themselves

Question 5

why are situations wrong according to absolutism?

Answer 5

because the act breaks a moral rule

Question 6

what is an example of a moral absolutist position in religion?

Answer 6

the 10 commandments

Question 7

what do many christians today think?

Answer 7

that there is a hierarchy of absolutes

Question 8

what would happen if there was a conflict between absolutes?

Answer 8

it’s our duty to obey the higher one

Question 9

what does absolutism provide? STRENGTH

Answer 9

provides a fixed ethical code with which to measure actions

Question 10

what does absolutism allow countries to have? STRENGTH

Answer 10

laws

Question 11

what does absolutism give clear guidance of?

Answer 11

behaviour that reinforces a global view of the human community

Question 12

what is there no danger of doing within absolutism?

Answer 12

permitting atrocities

Question 13

what can absolutism support? STRENGTH

Answer 13

the declaration of human rights

Question 14

what does absolutism help to do? STRENGTH

Answer 14

unite cultures

Question 15

what can’t absolutism take into account? WEAKNESS

Answer 15

the circumstances of the situation

Question 16

what is absolutism unable to accept? WEAKNESS

Answer 16

different religions and cultural practices

Question 17

what can absolutism be seen as? WEAKNESS

Answer 17

intolerant of cultural diversity

Question 18

what are there none of? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 18

no universally valid moral principles

Question 19

what are all principles and values relative to? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 19

relative to a particular culture of age

Question 20

what is there no such thing as regarding actions? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 20

‘good - in itself’ but if an action seems good to you and bad for me , that’s it - there is no objective basis for us to discover the truth

Question 21

who found an example of MORAL RELATIVISM?

Answer 21

king darius

Question 22

what did king darius observe? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 22

that while certain greeks burn the bodies of their fathers, a different group called callations are the bodies of their fathers

Question 23

what did king darius ask the two groups to do? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 23

how much he would have to pay them to adopt the practice of the other

Question 24

what was the response of the two groups to king darius's question? MORAL RELATIVISM

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both groups were outraged and refused

Question 25

what did king darius's example show?

Answer 25

what was right for one tribe was wrong for the other

Question 26

what is the dependency thesis? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 26

what is right or wrong depends upon the nature of society

Question 27

what did JL Mackie say? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 27

there are no objective values

Question 28

what does JL Mackie say isn't part of the fabric of the world? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 28

values, the good, the rightness & wrongness

Question 29

what does JL Mackie say the more convincing argument is?

Answer 29

to assume that people participates in different ways of living because they follow different codes

Question 30

what does moral relativism suit? STRENGTH

Answer 30

our multicultural world

Question 31

what does moral relativism permit? STRENGTH

Answer 31

acts which one culture considers the norm and others don't

Question 32

what does moral relativism say one culture isn't? STRENGTH

Answer 32

superior to another

Question 33

what does moral relativism decline? STRENGTH

Answer 33

religious authority

Question 34

what is the weakness of different moral views? MORAL RELATIVISM

Answer 34

different moral views are not necessarily equal (socrates)

Question 35

what can there be no real evaluation of in moral relativism? WEAKNESS

Answer 35

no real evaluation or criticisms of practices such as the holocaust

Question 36

what does moral relativism give little reason for? WEAKNESS

Answer 36

behaving morally

Question 37

just because cultures caary...what doesn't it mean?

Answer 37

it doess not mean there is no 'objective good'

Question 38

what are moral rules? cultural relativism

Answer 38

expressions of culture and nothing more

Question 39

what isn't there regarding rules? CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Answer 39

no set of moral rules that appy to all. nothing absolute or universal about morality

Question 40

where do moral points of view vary from? CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Answer 40

time to time, culture to culture, religion to religion and place to place

Question 41

why is the diversity thesis important? CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Answer 41

because of the diversity across and within cultures, there can be no one true morality