PHIL226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Relativism, Ethics In Religion, Euthyphro Dilemma
21 Apr 2016
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There is an objective moral standard, always in principle an answer to questions of whether something is morally right wrong or neutral. Possibly we may never know the answers, or at least, we may never know them perfectly, in fact we almost certainly won"t know them perfectly. It is possible to make progress in moral knowledge, we can get closer to the truth even if we can"t know it fully. Major ethical traditions help us to make progress, including philosophical, religions, and other tradition. We won"t count ethical relativism as a theory. If 1) morality depends on god, then: x is good/right because god wills x or, god wills x because x is good/right. But a seems to make morality arbitrary and b implies a moral standard independent of god. Response: this may not be a problem for those who understand god to be the source of all good. Depends on what it means for morality to depend on god.
