Absolutist Ethics
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- Created on: 04-04-20 08:25
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- all actions are intrinsically right or wrong
- e.g. stealing is always wrong even if done for the wellbeing of others
- form of deontology
- Absolutist Ethics
- pros/ cons
- strong disagreements about which moral principles are correct/ incorrect
- makes creation of laws/ a judicial system easier
- allows society to evaluate the morality of another society
- gives authority to human rights legislation
- enables comities to share common values
- no account of cultural differences/ situation/ historical development
- can make quick ethical decisions
- harsh- law must be obeyed regardless of the outcome
- for morals to be truly absolute, they would need to have a universally unquestioned source, interpretation, and authority- arguably impossible
- pros/ cons
- Ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle believed in a kind of moral absolutism
- contrasts consequentialism
- Absolutist Ethics
- form of deontology
- Absolutist Ethics
- pros/ cons
- strong disagreements about which moral principles are correct/ incorrect
- makes creation of laws/ a judicial system easier
- allows society to evaluate the morality of another society
- gives authority to human rights legislation
- enables comities to share common values
- no account of cultural differences/ situation/ historical development
- can make quick ethical decisions
- harsh- law must be obeyed regardless of the outcome
- for morals to be truly absolute, they would need to have a universally unquestioned source, interpretation, and authority- arguably impossible
- pros/ cons
- Ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle believed in a kind of moral absolutism
- contrasts consequentialism
- Absolutist Ethics
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