Lecture Notes: Ethical Systems
Cultural Relativism This system asserts that an action is right if one’s culture approves of it. Moral rightness and wrongness are relative to cultures. So, culture A cannot judge culture B…
Category: Moral Philosophy
Lecture Notes: Life Issues – Abortion
TERMINOLOGY Verbiage related to where a person stands on the issues of abortion has become insanely politicized. Terms like “pro-life,” “pro-choice,” “anti-choice,” etc. have become lobbying brands more than moral…
Lecture Notes: Essentials of Ethics
Defining ethics and drawing distinctions between morality and legality.
Lecture Notes: Social Contract, State of Nature, Natural Law
Examining the philosophy of rules and structure.
Lecture Notes: Human Rights
The most basic of all human rights is the right to life. This is supported by a simple contingency argument. All other rights are predicated on the right to life.…
Lecture Notes: Capital Punishment
Examining the moral implications of the death penalty.
Lecture Notes: The Concepts of Evil
Identifying and defining types of evil and how each relates to morality.
