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Brian
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Date Posted: 02/26/03 1:25am
In reply to:
Wade A. Tisthammer
's message, "What is your take on morality?" on 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?
>
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>- 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?
I think that you have failed to mention a very important ethical theory, which is not a subdivision of any of the other objective moral theories.
Reality ethics: MLK, Aristotle, Plato, Augistine, Aquinas, and the list goes on. You may be mistaken by thinking that these men were "Deontology", which is really Kantian.
Reality ethics- discernent of the value(intrinic) of something and bringing that into harmony with self and the world.
This is much different than reasoning soely from principles(kantian), which does not take into account the value of something and consequences of an action.
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