PHIL 243 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Self-Awareness, Virtue Ethics, Universalizability
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What is moral is not necessarily what is prudent even in business. Paying taxes: morality and the law versus morality and the conscious. What is legal is not necessarily what is moral even in business; what is moral is not necessarily the same as one"s conscience dictates. Give a business related example where they might conflict. The french taxpaying example given in the book. Potential obstacles to ethical thought and discussion: relativism. There are no objective (independent of what anyone thinks) moral truths. How they pose a problem (relevance to ethics) If relativism is true, then there is nothing to figure out about right and wrong. Lack of agreement does not prove a lack of objective truth: psychological egoism. How they pose a problem (if true what problem) If p. e. is true, than no one cares about right and wrong. Criticism (why it"s not true in the first place) There seems to be an immediate reaction of sympathy.
