Zusammenfassung der Ressource
RMPS NAB
- Euthyprho
- Where does
morality come from?
- God or the gods?
- Ourselves (reason)?
- Once God/the gods decree something is
right does it become right or are some things
right regardless of what God/the gods say?
- raises the possibility of a higher
authority than God/the gods
- the Greek gods were fickle
- Socrates
- Divine Command Theory
(Religious Authority)
- God is right/moral
- holy books
e.g. Bible
- interpretations
- moral code e.g. 10 commandments
- Utilitarian
- greatest good for the greatest number
- Act
- outcome of actions
- Rule
- following agreed rules
- consequential ethics
- women
should
have
"perfect
equality"
J. S. Mill
- Kantian Ethics
- Duty -
determined
through
reason
- intention
- categorical imperative -
universal, must be applied
to everyone in ever situation
- good will
- Kant in relation to gender
- women
cannot be
'used' as
an ends to
a man's
gratification
- it is never
a man's
duty to
assault a
women
- domestic violence goes against
common sense or reason and
therefore it cannot be right
- the universal maxim cannot be
applied since men would not
want to be violated therefore
they shouldn't violate women
- media portrayal of women
- housewives
- portrayed as being
happy in this role with
no desire to change
- unintelligent
- focus on body image to appeal to men's taste
- Feminism
- keeping women 'in their place' is morally wrong
- women have rights
- women are not inferior in ability etc
- they must be given choice and opportunities in all things
- campaigned for equality
- 1970 Equal Pay Act etc
- "the housewife is an
unpaid employee" - Greer
- Developing World
- 2012
- 800 women die in
childbirth or soon
after ever day
- 99% of those
are women
- younger women
are more at risk -
less developed
- 1990 - 2010 mortality
dropped by 50%
- result of millennium
development
goal/UN
- those in rural
communities
more at risk