Introduction

Principles about how we should live/what we ought to do.

Focuses on specific moral issues that people experience within their everyday lives.

Moral facts exist outside our opinions and judgements.

Morality is constructed and relevant to culture. There are no superior forms of ethics.

What is good or right.

What is bad or wrong.

To be without a moral sense, or being indifferent to morality.

Something that is outside the realm of morality altogether.

Studies the nature and methodology of moral judgements.

Studies specific moral issues people face in their everyday lives.

Morals and ethical codes are observably different across culture.

“Culture is King”. Moral truths are viewed as only true relative to specific groups of people. That is, moral belief is relative to the positioning of the culture (or the person in that culture) who has this belief.

No culture should be judged for its moral codes, and that no other culture should intervene in that culture carrying out its moral practices.

1) Relative to whom? 2) Some things just seem wrong. 3) Relativism and tolerance: why should we think that tolerance is a value that all humans subscribe to. 4) No room for social reform and progress.