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Mar 25, 2024 · Created March 25, 2024 by Marc Skuster. Learning Objectives - On completing this chapter, you will be able to: Distinguish between Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Applied Ethics. Define and evaluate Ethical Realism and a metaethical position. Discuss Moral Relativism and the Divine Command Theory as two forms of ethical conventionalism.
Apr 2, 2024 · The trolley problem is the problem of finding a plausible answer to that question. Foot’s first, provisional solution to the problem is to say that the relevant difference in each pair of cases can be articulated in terms of the doctrine of double effect: the tram driver only obliquely intends the death of one track worker, while the judge ...
- What is the trolley problem?One of the original versions of the trolley problem is this: Why does it seem permissible or even obligatory to kill one track worker to save five...
- Where did the trolley problem originate?The trolley problem originated in a 1967 essay by the British philosopher Philippa Foot, who used it in constructing a partial defense of the doctr...
- Why is the trolley problem important?The trolley problem is important because versions of it have been used to explore the validity and range of application of the doctrine of double e...
- How can the trolley problem be used to critique utilitarianism?Utilitarianism holds that an action is right if it maximizes happiness for the agent and for everyone affected. Accordingly, in the trolley problem...
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Mar 26, 2024 · Many postmodernists deny that there are aspects of reality that are objective or that there are statements about reality that are objectively true or false (implying metaphysical relativism), that it is possible to have knowledge of such statements (implying epistemological skepticism or relativism), and that there are objective, or absolute ...
- What is postmodernism?Postmodernism is a late 20th-century movement in philosophy and literary theory that generally questions the basic assumptions of Western philosoph...
- What are some general characteristics of postmodernism?Postmodern philosophy is characterized by broad skepticism or relativism and a general suspicion of reason. It also broadly asserts that Western in...
- What do postmodernists believe?Many postmodernists hold one or more of the following views: (1) there is no objective reality; (2) there is no scientific or historical truth (obj...
- How is postmodernism related to relativism?Although some postmodernists reject the relativist label, many postmodern doctrines constitute or imply some form of relativism. Many postmodernist...
- Who are some famous postmodernists?Some famous thinkers associated with postmodernism are Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Pierre-Félix Guattari, F...
Mar 28, 2024 · The said definitions characterized moral dilemma or ethical dilemma as: 1. Making an option to one moral value over the other; 2. A situation where moral values are equally significant; 3. A scenario where a person has a strong moral reason in action, but not equally strong moral reason in acting in another way; 4.
Mar 25, 2024 · Explain the ways in which Aristotle’s metaphysical thought departs from the metaphysics of Plato. Discuss and illustrate the meaning of “explanation” for Aristotle. Our main focus in this chapter will be with the three major ancient Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. It is in these thinkers that science and philosophy get ...
Mar 26, 2024 · Ethical position theory adopts two dimensions: idealism (concern with the outcomes for all involved parties) and relativism (question the existence of universal moral principles that can fit all situations) to explain personal moral philosophy (Forsyth, 1980; Forsyth et al., 2008).
Apr 5, 2024 · normative ethics, that branch of moral philosophy, or ethics, concerned with criteria of what is morally right and wrong. It includes the formulation of moral rules that have direct implications for what human actions, institutions, and ways of life should be like. It is typically contrasted with theoretical ethics, or metaethics, which is ...
