ABSOLUTE & RELATIVE MORALITY - keywords
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- Created on: 17-02-14 14:50
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- ABSOLUTE & RELATIVE MORALITY
- absolute
- A rule that is true in all situations; universal rights and wrongs
- consequentialism
- The rightness or wrongness of an act is determined by its consequences
- cultural relativism
- What is right or wrong depends on the culture
- deontological ethics
- An ethic which believes what is inherently right or wrong pays no regard to consequences
- descriptive relativism
- Different cultures and societies have differing ethical systems and so morality is relative
- moral absolutism
- There is only one correct answer to every moral problem
- moral objectivism
- Truth is objectively real regardless of culture
- moral relativism
- A judgement that depends on the circumstances; there is no universal right or wrong
- subjectivism
- Each person's values are relative to that person and so cannot be judged objectively
- teleological ethics
- An argument that is concerned with the purpose or ultimate goal of something
- absolute
- subjectivism
- Each person's values are relative to that person and so cannot be judged objectively
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