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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 12/14/02 11:39pm
I’m curious about the views on ethics of the people on this board, especially Ben's because his seems hard to pin down, almost inconsistent. Which category best fits you?
- Noncognitivism: the belief that moral truths do not exist, and that moral statements are neither true nor false.
- Emotivism: Moral statements are neither true nor false but are simply expressions or outbursts of feelings.
- Cognitivism: moral truths exist, and moral statements can be true or false.
Cognitivism can be split into two categories below:
- Ethical relativism states that morality is different for different people, and that morality is created by humans.
- Ethical subjectivism: moral truth is relative to the individual person, and moral truth is a matter of individual opinion or feeling.
- Cultural relativism: morality is created collectively by groups of humans and that it differs from society to society.
- Ethical objectivism maintains that moral values apply to all humans and, in some cases (sometimes depending on the particular theory), extend beyond the human community.
- Ethical egoism: what’s morally right is what’s in the self’s best interest.
- Deontology: duty is the basis of morality.
- Utilitarianism: actions that produce the most happiness and pleasure are morally good and that those that promote pain are morally undesirable.
There are some other metaethical theories, mainly (perhaps only) when it comes to ethical objectivism, but I believe I’ve listed the main ones here (to the very least, relativism, objectivism, and noncognitivism covers it all, even if I haven’t listed all the subdivisions). Which one do you hold and why?
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