ETHICS by Andrea Sofía Hernández Hernández https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh en-us 2023-04-25 03:58:58 UTC 2025-10-22 10:51:28 UTC hello@padlet.com Ethics and Morality a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645065 2023-04-25 04:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645065 Types of Morality a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645261 2023-04-25 04:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645261 Moral relativism a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645554 More than one moral position on a given topic can be correct ]]> 2023-04-25 04:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645554 Divine command a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645745 2023-04-25 04:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566645745 Right and wrong a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566646021 2023-04-25 04:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566646021 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566656811 Branch of philosophy that studies morality, or right and wrong behavior. ]]> 2023-04-25 04:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566656811 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566661863 Metaethics asks questions as basic as: what is morality?]]> 2023-04-25 04:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566661863 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566666455 Some people think that ethics is a kind of science, that it seeks to discover moral truths, whose existence is testable and provable.]]> 2023-04-25 04:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566666455 Moral Realism a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566681626 the belief that there are moral facts, in the same way that there are scientific facts.]]> 2023-04-25 04:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566681626 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566683709 any moral proposition can only be true, or false.

]]> 2023-04-25 04:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566683709 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566684944 if morality is based on facts, then why is there so much disagreement about what’s moral and what’s not, as opposed to science, where there’s often more consensus?]]> 2023-04-25 04:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566684944 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566686404 The grounding problem of ethics is the search for a foundation for our moral beliefs, something solid that would make them true in a way that is clear, objective, and unmoving.]]> 2023-04-25 04:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566686404 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566687678 If you can’t find a way to ground morality, you might be pushed toward another metaethical view: Moral Antirealism.]]> 2023-04-25 04:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2566687678 Grounding problem of ethics a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571337548 the search for a foundation for our moral beliefs, something solid that would make them true in a way that is clear, objective, and unmoving.]]> 2023-04-28 05:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571337548 Moral antirealism a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571339536 the belief that moral propositions don’t refer to objective features of the world at all – that there are no moral facts.]]> 2023-04-28 05:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571339536 Moral absolutism a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571341935 There are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged. ]]> 2023-04-28 05:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571341935 Cultural relativism a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571345900 Descriptive cultural relativism - people's moral beliefs differ from culture to culture;
Normative cultural relativism - it's not your beliefs, but moral facts themselves that differ.]]> 2023-04-28 05:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571345900 Moral subjetivism a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571348779 Moral statements can be true or false - right or wrong, but they refer only to people's attitudes, rather than their actions ]]> 2023-04-28 05:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571348779 Moral progress a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571357660 If what everyone is doing right now is right, relative to their own culture, then there’s never any reason to change anything.]]> 2023-04-28 05:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571357660 Ethical theories a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571360082 2023-04-28 05:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571360082 Natural law theory a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571360854 relies on the starting assumption that God created the universe according to a well-ordered plan.]]> 2023-04-28 05:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571360854 Utilitarianism a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571361449 relies on the starting assumption that all beings share a common desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain.]]> 2023-04-28 05:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2571361449 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572798806 the belief that what’s moral, and what’s immoral is commanded by the divine, whether it’s the “big G” Judeo-Christian God, or some other deity, or group of gods.]]> 2023-04-30 04:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572798806 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572798920 addresses many of our biggest questions about right and wrong, which is why it’s the ethical theory of choice for much of the world.]]> 2023-04-30 04:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572798920 The Euthyphro problem a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572799124 Are right actions right because God commands them?
Or are right actions commanded by God because they are right?]]> 2023-04-30 04:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572799124 a01424410 https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572799380 If God determines the rightness and wrongness of everything, just by saying so, then the entire concept of goodness and value becomes vacuous.]]> 2023-04-30 04:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/a01424410/p0lxepx6au70sabh/wish/2572799380