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Please choose five of the questions below to answer fully. You should expect to write an entire paragraph to fully answer the question. Be sure to explain any technical terms, theories, or concepts that you use in your answer, and be sure to document any references that you might use to construct your answer.
Please choose five of the questions below to answer fully. You should expect to write an entire paragraph to fully answer the question. Be sure to explain any technical terms, theories, or concepts that you use in your answer, and be sure to document any references that you might use to construct your answer.
1. Explain how the objectivist, relativist, and nihilist would analyze the truth of the moral evaluation “it is wrong to hit young children when they lie to you.”
2. What are the two interpretations of the dependency thesis? Demonstrate your understanding of the difference by explaining the two interpretations using an example moral evaluation.
3. Why isn’t moral progress possible if ethical relativism is true?
4. How is the principle of tolerance derived from the conclusion of ethical relativism, and why is this principle problematic for relativism?
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Running head: MORAL ETHICS
Moral Ethics
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MORAL ETHICS
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QUESTION 1
Moral relativism is a general view of morality that bases its argument on an individual's
choice of what is morally upright and what is wrong. This choice is heavily influenced by an
individual's beliefs which are in some way affected by one's society, through socialization.
Socialization is the process where culture is transferred from one person to another; this is
usually from one generation to the other (Wall, 2008). This culture is inclusive of society's
norms, sanctions, and beliefs. Moral objectivism, on the other hand, is the view that anything that
should be termed right or wrong is not dependant on what anyone thinks but rather it is
dependent on the consequences of the act and the willingness of the individual performing the
act to wish everybody should act the same way (Silver, 2011). Both these theories bestow the
judgment of what is morally upright and what is wrong on individual decision that is heavily
influenced by one's culture be it the general human culture or societal culture, therefore in
deciding whether it is right to hit a young child when they lie to you depends on culture, which is
very dynamic and differen...