MODR 1770 Final: Lecture 6 MODR 1770
28 Feb 2021
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Chapter 4 of our main text ethics and propaganda . To understand this chapter, we should understand what questions marlin is grappling with: This chapter looks at some ideas in the history of moral theory and tries to apply these to the ethics of propaganda. There are many ethical perspectives marlin goes through. Religion as a basis for moral judgment is not as straightforward or unproblematic as many believe. Because: there are often inconsistencies in the prescriptions of religious texts, or religious authorities, even within the same religion. Suppose one of the prescriptions is to love one another and, therefore, not to judge other people, while another is to put to death someone who commits a consensual but unnatural" sexual act. From a modern perspective, the contradiction is glaring . (140): religious ethics often depends on appeals to authority, the authority of an ancient text or of some priest, minister, imam, rabbi, etc.
