PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Voyeurism
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Relativism absolutism absolute standard relativism belief conventionalism conceptualism tolerance. People started to wonder if their way is the best way or the way. So you go and study another culture, they kill their babies if they have too many. Plato would be a great example of absolutist. Absolutism: a right ethics, a correct morality. People started going against absolutism and look at other standards of ethics. If i am an absolutist, if i think killing your baby is a wrong thing, because its really the wrong thing to do. Absolutist would slavery is wrong and i don"t care if the year is 1850. For absolutists everything is black or white. If i am an absolutist, i have an absolute standard. There is an absolute standard then we will be able to judge whether an action is ethical or not. A person who thinks abortion is immoral can be an absolutist.