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Name: Thomas C. DePew Date: 11/19/2023 ITMG481 Week 2 Assignment (3% of Grade) APUS/Yocam Lesson 2 Review: Conduct & Moral Responsibility The purpose of this activity is to reinforce what you have learned so far about conduct and moral responsibility. 1. How do religion, law, and philosophy each provide different grounds for justifying a moral principle? How can each perspective be applied to the analysis of the moral principle “Stealing is wrong? (Minimum word count: 60) Looking at religious moral principles it is based on one’s belief system. This is to say that a higher power or powers sets the principles that their followers must abide to. For example, in Christianity followers’ belief that they must follow God’s 10 commandments. In those commandments one is thou shall not commit adultery. Now while in other religions it is morally acceptable to say have multiple partners or even spouses in Christianity it is viewed as morally offensive to the god, they believe in and is prohibited. Now law is defined as a morally inept act followed by consequences. Every country, state, county, city, even villages have their own laws that citizens must abide by. In this case murder falls within this moral principle and is punishable with time in prison, since it is against the law to murder someone, if murder occurs then the person who committed this crime should be held accountable for their actions. The previous two are written down somewhere for either everyone or certain people to follow either in a bible or other religious book or somewhere in a code book available to all citizens for reference. Now getting into philosophical perspective this is solely based on someone’s moralistic standpoints going back to religion for a second to provide the example when it comes to adultery in the Christian faith it is absolutely against the morals of god to commit adultery or simply to have an affair if you are married to someone. Now shift that over to say the Mormon Church where it is morally acceptable to practice polygamy or plural marriage which means that a man or woman can have multiple husbands or wives. This example further proves that the philosophical perspective shows that the moral is implied on someone’s personal moral values. 2. What are the basic differences separating ethicists from moralists? (Minimum word count: 60) The differences are simple, and it all lays on how it is discussed. Moralists tend to push their agenda more onto the other person than an ethicist would. A prime example of this is the discussion of physician assisted suicide. Moralists will continue to push that doctors need to uphold the Hippocratic oath and preserve life and not take it. Whereas on the other hand you have ethicist much like Dr. Kevorkian who was a doctor who believed in physician assisted suicide for those that were suffering and were

essentially in hospice care and were inevitably going to die. His belief was that if someone was given simply speaking a death sentence due to an illness such as cancer or something to that effect that he was preserving life by assisting the patient in what as their final wishes. 3. Identify and brieﬂy summarize four different kinds of “discussion stoppers” in ethical discourse. (Minimum word count: 60) People who disagree about morality, so how can we reach an agreement on moral issues, who are we to judge and impose our own values on others, is morality a private or public matter, and is morality a point different from cultures or groups determining for themselves. We all have disagreements on topics and even though we cannot agree on all maters the one thing that can be agreed upon is that is that morality should be dismissed. Some people are just not comfortable in situations here they are being judged based on their moral values. Being a judgmental person is a learned trait as you grow you need to get away from being judgmental while still making a moral decision in whatever situation you are in. Morals should really be a private matter, but it quickly becomes public when laws are created. You see this mainly in the news every single day when talking about Congress or Capitol Hill in general. 4. What is moral relativism? How is it different from cultural relativism? (Minimum word count: 60) Moral relativism differs from cultural relativism in a way, but they are seemingly connected. While moral relativism does not make moral judgments on culture moral behavior can be displayed within a group and can be eventually accepted and considered normal. Cultural relativism is the assumption that the group or communities’ belief system affect behavior that is morally right or morally wrong in a sense. So, while they differ in meaning moral relativism and cultural relativism do have their differences but are connected in more ways than many want to agree with. 5. What is moral objectivism, and how is it different from moral absolutism? (Minimum word count: 60) Moral objectivism is a gray area between ethics and moralism. This is a disagreement between ethics, moralists, and absolutists. Within perspective there absolutely can be a multitude of answers to moral questions, even though there is an agreement or disagreement on more than one set of moral issues. Objectivist suggests that moral dilemmas exist but are not limited to one definitive answer, but many plausible solutions exist.

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