PP247 Study Guide - Final Guide: Group Polarization, Behaviorism, Distributive Justice
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The main idea is that there are different moral codes in each society, but no source to appeal to which can provide a universal referent on right and wrong. Sometimes invoked to prevent people from criticizing the practices of certain cultures. Problems: 1) cultures are difficult to define; 2) excuses evil regimes (intolerance); 3)underlying ethical commonalities; 4) philosophically inconsistent; 5) collapses into individual relativism or nihilism. Treat others how you wish to be treated. An ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation of morality. Believed to be in self-interest and therefore immoral. Higher and lower egoism exist - the self & its interests are fluid. Psychological egoism is the view that everyone is always motivated to act on his/her perceived self-interest. They cost the dr but the patient . He can"t afford it (only k) and the dr won"t budge. He breaks into the dr"s house & steals the drug.
