Assignment 8 (PHI)
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Unit 8 Assignment
Give a formal definition (dictionary) of the terms ethics, meta-
ethics, and morals.
Meta-ethics
- the attempt to understand the metaphysical,
epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions
and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice.
Morals
- concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior
and the goodness or badness of human character.
Ethics
- a set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or
affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct.
Describe Applied ethics, normative ethics and Meta-Ethics.
Applied ethics consists in the attempt to answer difficult moral
questions actual people face in their lives. Normative ethics is the
study of what makes actions right or wrong, what makes situations
or events good or bad and what makes people virtuous or vicious.
Lastly, meta-ethics consists in the attempt to answer the
fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of ethical
theory itself.
Describe Ethical realism, ethical conventionalism, and moral
relativism.
Realism is the view that there are ethical truths and they are made
true by something other than convention. Conventionalism is the
view that there are ethical truths and their truth is a matter of
convention. Moral realism is the view that moral judgements are
true or false only relative to some particular standpoint.
What are some objections to subjectivism.
One objection to subjectivism says.”If moral principles are not
based on fact, then there is no right or wrong, and everything is
permitted.” Subjectivist, however, no matter what they claim
philosophically, hold on to the view that some things are right and
others are wrong.
What are some objections to Moral relativism.
The most important objection to moral relativism is that it implies
the pernicious consequence that “anything goes.” Slavery for
example, saying it is just according to the norms of a slave
society.
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