PHILOS 2YY3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Robert Nozick, Egotism, Conventionalism
20 Oct 2016
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Midterm review for introduction to ethics 2yy3 fall 2016. Louis p. pojman: a defense of ethical objectivism pg. Ethical relativism is split into two; subjectivism and conventionalism (both have problems) Misled by relativist arguments. (arguments for moral relativism) Three arguments for moral relativism: diversity thesis- moral rules differ from society to society, dependency thesis- acts are right or wrong depending on the culture they belong to, no absolute or moral standards binding on all people- We learn morals as unconsciously as we learn to walk and hear and breathe. Morality is in the eye of the beholder. On the basis of subjectivism adolf hitler and serial murdered ted bundy could be considered as moral as. Ghandi as long as they each lived by their own standards. We might be revalued by the views of ted. Bundy, but that is just a matter of taste.
