[PHILOS 2YY3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (15 pages long)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 2YY3
• Professor: V Igneski

Document Summary

Ethical/moral relativism-moral principles are relative to culture or individual choice, no absolute universal moral standard held by all societies at all times: subjectivism-morality is an individual/personal decision, conventionalism-morality as a social acceptance, depends on what society accepts. Moral objectivism-some moral principles are universally valid. Morality is in the eye of beholder , depends on their beliefs, desires. You can have your own view, and i can have mine . Problem with this view: little or no interpersonal criticism logically possible, makes morality a very useless concept, but morality is about interpersonal interaction. If it is about social norms and regulations, and how we all live together, it will be tough. The social nature of morality, there are no objective moral principles but that all valid moral principles are justified by virtue of their cultural acceptance. We have to be tolerant of the moralities of other cultures, since we can"t criticize the morality of any other culture but our own.