PHIL 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Relativism, Kantianism
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Not just a summary of things that you have read. Offer the reader reasons for accepting a particular view/thesis. *remember to add a title: introduction, very brief intro. You want to briefly tell your reader about the general topic of the paper. Ex: this paper is about the plausibility of moral relativism. Ex: according to moral relativists, whether or not an action is morally permissible depends on the moral code of one"s culture. This paper is about whether such an ethical theory is feasible. : get right to the point, aim. You need to make it very very clear what the overall aim of the paper is. The aim of this paper is to argue that moral relativism is false . The purpose of this paper is to argue that moral relativism does not provide a tenable theory of right conduct. My goal in this paper is to show why moral relativism should be rejected .
