MCD BIO 60 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cauterization, No Substance, Cultural Relativism
30 Mar 2018
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Philosophy/ethics: what people should do (can"t get an ought from an is, tries to figure out what the law should look like, uses argumentation. Argumentation: conclusion: claim that we are trying to establish, built via premises that are also claims. Cultural relativism: ethics come from our culture, like etiquettte. Ex: female genitalia: female genitalia is closed, vaginal canal stitched together. Ex: cauterizing iron male infant: healthy male infant, cauterizing iron (burn flesh), apply to end of genitalia with no anesthetic. Infant goes into shock, seizes, remove all of genitalia. Circumcision in american hospitals: people don"t get worked up, norm in american culture, easy to look at another culture and call what they do horrifying and what we do normal. Claim 1: what is morally true is relative/dependent on one"s culture. Claim 2: different cultures have different moral standards. Claim 3: there is no objective/moral truth: argument for cultural relativism historical colonialism.
