CSUN Dogmatism Rationalism Relativism Ethical Thinking

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Each week students will compose a 2-page essay and that will begin this week. This week's essay will be the only one that will use the 5-paragraph format that you have used since middle school (Intro paragraph with thesis sentence at the end, second through fourth paragraphs elaborating on the thesis, and the fifth paragraph as the conclusion). The topic will be:"How do views of dogmatism, rationalism, and relativism affect ethical thinking?" Weston's first chapter should be helpful in developing your essay. The essays will be graded as if you were in an English class (spelling, style, grammar, etc). It is just to let you know what I will be expecting. Be sure to proof-read you work before you submit your essay.

This assignment will also buy time to educate you on the pragmatic format that will be used after this first essay. We will go over this several times so don't worry about this format yet. I am just letting you know where we are headed.

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Running Head: DOGMATISM, RATIONALISM AND RELATIVISM

How Views of Dogmatism, Rationalism, and Relativism Affect Ethical Thinking
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DOGMATISM, RATIONALISM, AND, RELATIVISM

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Ethical dilemmas are very common in our everyday life. This, therefore, requires one to
rely on certain guidelines on morality in order to make the right decision. This is not as easy as it
sounds since morality is derived from a lot of places; morality is based on the capacity to cause
pleasure or pain, reason, religion and various hypothetical contracts. However for an individual,
certain influences hold more of a sway than others, for instance, some people base their life on
the teachings of their religion while others may base their actions on their reasoning after
interpreting a unique situation. Therefore when it comes to ethical thinking dogmatism is ruled
by faith, rationalism is governed by knowledge and reason while relativism is ruled by
pragmatism.
Dogmatism refers to a state of mind where an individual holds metaphysical views wit...


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