The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life

Compare ethics in terms of various cultures, discussing moral relativism. All different cultures have similar views on what makes their culture different from any other. They tend to all have sacred stories and myths and close to all have a sense of realism in their ways.. In terms of specific cultures, relativism is categorized as cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is the descriptive view that different groups of people have different moral standards for evaluating acts as right or wrong (Philosphophy302

Mena Boyah Philosophy Final 1.The ship’s cook has asked us whether or not it is morally ok to kill and cook up some of the local life to sustain ourselves while we shelter on this planet. I would like to pull up the philosophers from our holographic archive that would argue that it is morally ok to do so. The three philosophers that will aid me in my decision are Jeremy Bentham, Kant, and John Stuart Mill. First let us start with Jeremy Bentham his philosophies are centered around the pain and

"Plato, an Ancient Greek Philosopher" by Carly Rittenmeyer Bible and the Ancient World Spring 2015 Plato, a Greek Philosopher, is known for his writings that impacted people in the Ancient Greek society. He was a free thinker and lived in a free city, Athens. He was taught by multiple teachers including Socrates who was frequently mentioned in his writings as the central character. Plato’s novel, The Republic, influenced the idea of government and shows his views on the

Ethics Ethics can be defined broadly as a set of moral principles or values. Each of us has such a set of values, although we may or may not have clearly expressed them. It is common for people to differ in their moral principles and values and the relative importance they attach to them. These differences reflect life experiences, successes and failures, as well as the influences of parents, teachers, and friends. Ethical behavior is necessary for a society to function in an orderly

2014). For such reason, rational moral agents have a moral obligation to preserve the biosphere because animals and plants have an intrinsic value. I understand a counter argument of mine is that plants and animals are used instrumentally by rational moral agents, entirely for pleasure which is unnecessary. Extrinsic value is described as something valuable which can be put to use instrumentally (Zimmerman, 2014). It is said that what has intrinsic value has ultimate moral value (Woods, 2010). There are

guards and they tell us what we’re getting”. March of 2016 Donald Trump was head in the election of the republicans. Sadly racism is still a harsh reality but how is it that while most scientist and philosophers claim

questions. Beyond answers, philosophers explored schools of thought that would best govern human decision making. Two prominent ethical theories that arose were utilitarianism and deontological ethics. Both ethical theories developed to establish and justify a set of different moral rules and principles. Utilitarianism, otherwise known as consequentialism, is an ethical theory that sees the best moral decision is one that maximizes utility, which implies that no moral decision is intrinsically right

Moral Agreement with God Textbook definition of, evil is "What is morally wrong, what hampers the awareness of good" (Webster, Dictionary). If that is evil, previously what is good? Philosophers have wished over what evil is and why it occurs for thousands of years. They have elevated enquiries like ‘how can there be a God if there is evil?' This brings the questions to God's nature: he said to be all-powerful, all knowing and all good. Uncertainty this is the case, why does not he stop evil

it. Everybody has their own beliefs in life whether it’s from religion, morals, or in essence everything in general. Philosophers try to answer the unknown questions in life that everyone is wanting to examine and have the answers to. I never even thought twice about the world we live in, I thought that it was just life and that’s all to it; we live and we die. Throughout the semester I have learned many different views of the world by diverse philosophers. Many I agreed with, many I did not but

Socrates was the first Athenian philosopher and he is very interesting figure, not only of his teaching methods, but also of his whole life and way of thinking. In the centre of Socrates philosophy is human being but, first of all, he sees a human as moral being. According to Socrates, learning process is closely connected with relations which will be build between the teacher and a student and he as a teacher should give to the student all accumulated experience of previous older generations. I