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    Moral Messages in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley Priestley wrote an Inspector Calls in 1945 - just before the end of WW2. However, The play itself is set in 1912 - just before the start of WW1, and in Edwardian England. Priestley was a socialist writer who had left wing political views with very strong beliefs; he enjoyed using types of theatre to get his messages across. When the platy was set, there was a lot of historical events going on at the time; Titanic

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    truth. Judgements and truths change from one person to another as the environment, the norms, and the culture change. According to Protagoras, even morality is relative and the truth of moral judgments is limited to the context in which they are affirmed. In other words, moral relativism is the view that moral judgements are true or false only relative to a particular society, situation or individual. Therefore, there is no universal principle

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    surprisingly similar moral ideals regarding acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Although moral relativists believe that morality is individually determined, there is, in fact, an objective moral standard that governs all humanity, because a sense of right and wrong is universal, transcends time and culture, and is evident in the majority of people. Moral relativism is the belief that there is no universal moral truth. Instead of seeking objective principles to guide their decisions, moral relativists look

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    Moral Relativism Analysis

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    Moral relativism is the view that ethical and moral statements all vary from person to person, and both opinions are equally valid because everybody has their own morals that they grew up to know. There is no ultimate standard of morality, according to moral relativism, and no statement or position can be considered ultimately right or wrong. After all, everybody is raised to believe in different ideas, and they have no reason to believe that their way of thinking is morally wrong. People are subject

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    A “moral panic” is an event that has the potential to take place all over the world and is not restricted by time, culture or a specific religion (Luce, 2012: 399). When these panics occur, there are various players involved. For example there are those whose actions result in the initiation of the panic, as well those who take advantage of these actions, such as the media in various ways such as images so as to possibly benefit themselves or draw negative attention in the direction of a certain

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    The challenges of moral relativism. Moral relativism argues against the idea of cultural moral relativism as a proper theory of ethics. Which is a view on moral judgments that is true or false, in addition, that it depends on a specific type of standpoint, and that no other standpoint is exclusively advantaged over all others. This proponent of this theory claims that morality is not the absolute, and that the conception of right and wrong depends entirely on the cultural traditions and beliefs.

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    What are the implications of Dr. Stockman’s actions for the issue of moral relativism? Moral relativism is the belief that moral principles depends on cultural acceptance, or a subjective point of view. We get to see how subjective it can be reading Henrik Ibsen’s play, The Enemy of the People (Pojman 166). The play is about a doctor (Stockman) in a Norwegian town, who learns that the water used in the towns baths is contaminated. Dr. Stockman feels morally obligated to inform people of his findings

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    Plato Moral Relativism

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    Realism What is Plato’s reasoning for rejecting moral relativism in favor of moral realism? An interpretation of moral relativism is that it is an understanding that the ethical position of right or wrong is culturally centered and as a result subjected to a person’s individual opinion. Plato however spends a great deal of time arguing against moral relativism and in favor of moral realism. The argument Plato proposes is that moral relativism is irrational because it has no logical ground

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    Moral Absolutism is concerned with right and wrong behavior. The absolute is what controls whether the action or behavior is right or wrong. Therefore, from the position of moral absolute, some things are always right and some things are always wrong no matter how one try to rationalize them. Moral absolutism materializes from a theistic worldview. Ethical Absolutists can condemn practices such as the Nazi harassment of the Jews because Absolutist views give definite guidelines as to what is right

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    Moral relativists normally overemphasize the level of assorted qualities among societies since shallow contrasts frequently veil hidden shared understandings. Indeed, there is a center arrangement of all inclusive qualities that any human culture must support in the event that it is to thrive. Moral relativists are additionally blamed for conflictingly guaranteeing that there are no all inclusive good standards while engaging a rule of resistance as a general standard. According to numerous faultfinders

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