Ethical Principles
Overview of ethical principles for OCR religous ethics. It's predominantly absolutism and relativism, covering the aspects of each theory along with strengths and weaknesses.
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- Created on: 28-04-13 00:28
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- Ethical Principles
- Moral Absolutism
- Universal
- Objective
- Human rights
- Example of moral absolutism because they don't change depending on religion or race
- Platonic idealism
- Theory of the forms
- Eternal and unchanging and therefore absolute
- Give meaning and structure to universe
- "Forms are reducible to a single unalterable ideal, the forms of the Good"
- Theory of the forms
- Religious absolutism
- Divine command theory
- Weakness'
- What about individual lifestyles?
- Doesn't consider cultural differences
- Doesn't consider specific situations
- Doesn't consider historical devolopment
- Surely sometimes you will have personal opinions to condier
- Condemnatory and harsh
- Strengths
- Clear moral judgements
- Societies can judge one another and evaluate the morality
- Quick ethical decisions, no "ifs" or "buts"
- Allows for human rights and therefore equality
- Allows different societies to share common values
- Preferences aren't considered because it's based on universal values
- Absolute theories
- Kantian ethics
- Natural Law
- Religious absolutism
- Divine command theory
- Religious absolutism
- Relativism
- Moral relativism
- Situation ethics
- What's right and wrong is dependent on the situation
- Agapeism = Using agape as the test for making moral descions
- Consequentialism = Consequences of an action determine whether it's right or wrong
- Four principles
- Positivism
- Relying on faith not reason
- Personalism
- God is not here to judge, he has a relationship with humanity
- Relativism
- Agape is a guide and not absolute
- Pragmatism
- Every decisions should be based on agape
- Positivism
- "Law of love" n'awhhh
- Situation ethics
- Cultural relativism
- Dependency Thesis
- Morality of societies is dependent on aspirations and beliefs
- Conventionalism
- Argues that moral rules are emerge due to reactions to a circumstance rather than being based on particular values
- Pyramid relativism
- That all societies have a fundamental principle where other values stem out from
- Diversity Thesis
- Morals differ from society to society as a result of historical development
- Dependency Thesis
- Subjective relativism
- Dependent on individual not society
- So you're neighbor slips over and faceplants, one person see's it as duty to call an ambulance whilst another does so because they were friends
- Micro-socities
- You act different depending on the groups you're around, this doesn't mean one set of values is better than the other
- Hypocrisy
- Good moral values are consitent with one another
- Dependent on individual not society
- Strengths
- Rejects moral imperialism
- (subjective relativism) considers individuals preferances
- Respects differences among societies
- "Truth is with the crowd and error with the individual"
- Can be strength or weakness
- (subjective relativism) considers individuals preferances
- Can be strength or weakness
- Weakness'
- Society is viewed as the only influence on morality
- Its only really descriptive which can allow for evil actions being justified
- opposes cultural imperialism
- "Every culture has a concept of murder"
- Doesn't appreciate that some values are universal
- Relative
- Subjective
- Moral relativism
- Moral Absolutism
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