Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Morality
- Relativism
- Strengths
- Encourages Tolerance
- Rejects moral imperialism
- Recognises Diversity
- Individual Morality doesnt account for the masses
- Weaknesses
- Not all beliefs are necessarily equal
- Cannot criticise other cultures
- Ignores universal moral values
- Offers little reason for behaving morally
- Difference between social reform and moral imperialism?
- Paradox
- If Universal belief was relativism, it would be absolute
- Too descriptive, should be a role in ethics for making judgements
- View of Simon Blackburn
- Absolutism
- Strengths
- Fixed Ethical Code
- Universal
- Allows different societies to share common values
- Can Evaluate Other Societies
- Weaknesses
- Doesn't allow for evolutionary nature of humanity
- Doesn't take circumstances into account
- Takes No account of cultural diversity
- Doesn't account for lesser evils, eg. Hiroshima
- How can we know the absolute of morality if open to interpretation