PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Examined Life, Nude Beach, Moral Relativism
11 Feb 2016
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Video 1: star trek video (old video) prime directive is a philosophy. The results can be disastrous if mankind interferes with a less developed nation. The next generation (episode symbiosis) famous prime directive, which is never interfere with less-developed cultures. Ethical/moral relativism it"s in the heart of multiculturalism. You have no right to tell someone else how to live. There is no universal objective standard for morals. Each culture (each individual) has their own sense of right and wrong. And each moral standard is equal to another. There is no one who has ultimate morals. You"ve to give up the claim that there is one truth, one right and wrong, and everything becomes relative. Every culture develops their own sense of moral rules and we"ve no right to say anything about them. Whenever a group has imposed its morals on another, it has always been done by force.
