Strengths and weaknesses of absolutism
- Created by: Chloe Trotter
- Created on: 12-04-16 15:25
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- Absolutism
- Strengths
- Gives a fixed ethical code/clear moral guidline
- Judge another culture and act on it.
- E.g. Holocaust
- Supports universal laws.
- Allows for human rights/laws to keep the peace in society
- Impossible to argue against it.
- People get on because of shared value. Have something in common.
- It's easier to apply than relativism
- Creates a cut off point of what is always right and always wrong
- In life humans instinctively take an absolutist approach to.
- E.g. Cruelty to a baby
- Objective.
- Right of wrong intrinsically
- Weaknesses
- Does not take the situation/circumstances into consideration
- Intolerant of cultural diversity
- No account for individual lifestyles.
- Ignorant of historical developments
- How do we know what absolute morals are?
- All sources of morality are open to human interpretation
- It's a very harsh approach
- Kant's theory is disliked
- Strengths
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