Ethical Relativism

Considering all the friendships lost it is clear to see that technology is destroying our friendships. People are so busy connecting online that they are missing out on new, amazing chareristics in life and on true genuine friendships. Kids mistake their “friends” as true friends on the internet, as a result it leaves them hurt and heartbroken. Online communication can get in the way of creating

Loretta Kopelman’s dissertation, Female Genital Circumcision and Conventionalists Ethical Relativism, takes a new approach in a global plight. Kopelman begins her thesis by elaborating on a particular tribe in southern Kenya. She describes how young girls are being mutilated for marriageability. Their fathers, eager for large dowries, perform the ritual on girls as young as nine. While some victims are able to escape and seek sanctuary, this obviously isn’t always possible and thus these girls must live with an inflicted deformity their whole life that doesn’t only cause serious health complications but sometimes even death.

Culture is the Backbone of a society, when something/someone tries to alter it or go against it everyone will notice. In this issue pointed out by Ruth Macklin, we look at the problems that can arise when an individual’s culture and autonomy clash. Every year there at least 30 million immigrants from all over the world that move to the United states of America, making America one of the most culturally diverse country in the world. Keeping this in mind, we will focus on Ruth Macklin’s issue of Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is the co-existence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles. Critics argue that we associate culture with a society, community and or family, but rarely with a single individual, thus placing it above the individual person. In this paper we are going to look at four different scenarios on from Ruth Macklin’s article.

In the argument article written by Dr. Alex Pattakos entitled “The Meaning of Friendship in a Social- Networked World.” He clearly defines his reasons for believing that technology is, in his opinion, ruining the concept of friendship. One of his main supports is the ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle. Other supports include, percentages and personal experience. Together with good example and persuasive skills, he composes a great article.

As I was reading through chapters 2 and 3, I found that Ethical Relativism was more convincing than Moral Objectivism was. Ethical Relativism is the moral rightness/wrongness that varies from society to society. Moral Objectivism is the view that there are universal and objective moral principles valid for all people. I feel as Ethical Relativism is more convincing because one thing that is frowned upon in one society could be acceptable in another society. There was many examples in the book about the different things that are accepted in one culture, but not in another. One the stood out the most to me was the example about Callatians and the Greeks. The Callatians disposed of their deceased parents by eating them. To the Callatians, it was

The book talks about how internet can deepen friendships, using social media to become more aware of a friend’s day to day life. (Berger, 204, p. 551-552). Social media helps most friendships, I always loved seeing the pictures my friends would post while we were apart as it almost allowed me to be with them or sometimes my friends would post pictures of us together just to say they missed me. As my friends and I have graduated high school and entered college, we may not see eachother very much within a year. Social media is one thing that allows us to always keep in touch. We may not see eachother everyday like before but things like snapchat allow us to stay in touch. Technology really has been able to form and improve friendships. Along with keeping in touch, social media also helped me reconnect with friends Id lost contact with. My senior year of high school one of my friends from second grade reached out to me via social media. We met up one day and out friendship rekindled, I gained another valuable friendship because of social media. According to the book the fear of internet causing isolation is false, if anything internet users seem to have more friends than nonusers (Berger,

The three main pillars of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Ethics can be defined as the study of morality, or the study of the distinction between right and wrong.

My understanding of Ethical relativism; I believe it encompasses a number of different views and beliefs. But at the same time they all can agree that there are no universal or permanent criteria to determine what one may or may not believe to be an ethical act or not. Most of us are thought that God didn’t grant any divine command for anyone, and its human nature to display no common law. Which means that: consequences have no weight because each individual or the world views may interpret the ethical relativism consequence differently. It also teaches that the ways of ethics change or evolve over time and may change to fit the circumstance.

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, and Flicker was invented to keep us in touch and keep us closer to our family and friends. But according to How Facebook ruins Friendships “we took our friendship online” (Bernstein). First we began communicating more by email than by phone and then switched to instant messaging or texting. By joining social Medias online

Relativism is actually the concept, which tells that when it comes to a viewpoint there is no complete or impartial truth. Rather, the truth contains subjectivity, which is related to specific perceiving behavior. Cultural relativism and ethical relativism both are the philosophies that are connected to relativism in some way or other. In order to make the difference between cultural relativism and ethical relativism, it is important to understand the word ethics that defines the whole morality study. Ethics is basically the branch of philosophy that tries to interpret those things and actions, which seem morally right and are universally acceptable.

When it comes to prescribing the medication, the physician is the one who decides what the best course of action is. Although typically “most patients have received a prescription for an oral dosage of a barbiturate (pentobarbital or secobarbital), and beginning in 2015, a phenobarbital/chloral hydrate/morphine sulfate/ethanol mix has also been used” (Death with Dignity 2017.) Additionally, these prescriptions are not free and can cost anywhere from $400 to $600 depending on what medication is used. Although the prices for these medications have increased because of the European Union ban on exports to the United States of the liquid form of pentobarbital. This ban exists because it was being used for capital punishment which is “illegal and deemed

Ethical relativism and ethical objectivism, what are they and how have we come understand them in our time? These two topics have been a center point for many arguments weather you actually talk about it or not. As much as we like to argue in this world in our daily lives we fail to see what stance we hold. This might be because we aren’t educated enough to realize it or it just might be because we don’t care. We will be discussing the differences between ethical relativisms and ethical objectivism so we can get a better grasp and understanding of these two topics. Ethical relativism is mainly based on what the individual person or society believe. It is what they see as morally right and wrong. Ethical objectivism is the view that some moral

This means that there are still going to be “fundamental disagreements” among societies due to the fact that there are different practices under the same moral principle. Which one is acceptable solely depends on which culture you are from and where it is practiced. Although ethical relativism makes valid points that there are no valid universal moral principles but rather moral principles that are relative to culture or an individual’s choice; it also has objections that in which problems arise from this theory. The idea of Subjectivism; which is

Considering the fact that Relativism forsakes “the search for an ethical theory” (Mosser, 2010, p. 50), and states more accurately that “we should recognize that there are no universal or general ethical standards, that one's ethical view is relative to one's culture, society, tradition, religion, worldview, or even one's own individual values” (Mosser, 2010, p. 50), and In light of the fact that Relativists see things in accordance to culture, genders, religion, and so on; they appear “to allow that we can simply “agree to disagree” (Mosser, 2010, p. 51). The moral concepts of beauty and virginity might be difficult moral questions to accept by the relativists as well as problematic in giving justification to.

Ethical relativism teaches us simply “that there is no universal standard of morality. There is no act that is always right or wrong for all people of all times. Instead of a definable standard, morality is based on the culture, the will of the people, careful consideration of scientific advancements, or personal opinion.” (www.compellingtruth.org)