PHI 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 60: Prosocial Behavior, Descriptive Ethics, Meta-Ethics
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Yes, morality is ingrained in all of us. From a young age we learn to justify our actions and we have a general concept of fairness, independent of the influence of our parents. In defending his decision about whether to escape, socrates offers three arguments that demonstrate a typical pattern of reasoning. 1 - you must not harm another, and escaping would be harming the state. 2 - if you remain living in a state, you agree to obey its laws (idea of social contract) 3 - one"s state is like one"s parents; you must obey your parents. Yes, because we must question why things are accepted as truth. A sociologist would typically be most concerned with which of the following? to describe or explain the phenomena of morality or to work out a theory of human nature which bears on ethical questions. A conclusion that follows a set of premises believed to be true.
