You have six views of ethics as quickly summarized below:
1) Kantian: There are "solid" absolute rights and wrongs. Everything leads to the
(Deontology) categorical imperative (Kant's golden rule).
2) Nietzsche We are no rights and wrongs, other than what we create, but make it worthwhile
(Existential) and grand - because we "paint our own picture" of morality.
3) Plato Figure out what's "right" and create "balance" among those things......such as
(Charecter) Truth, Justice, Equity, Integrity, Honesty
4) Utiltarian Morality needs to be practical, maximize the positive, minimize the negative.
(Practical) Ethics should/"ought" to create standards for health, safety, protection. We need to
get the "most good" out of every action, and focus on the "community".
5) Noddings Intuition is sometimes greater than rationality, Relationship is sometimes
(Femanist) greater than truth
6) Objectionist/
(Rational Selfishness) Looking out for number one, might not be all that bad. Ethics should reward the
motivated, the designers, and the risk-takers, while leaving the "leaches and the
moochers" to fend for themselves, rather than enable them.
QUESTION: So considering these above views that vary heavilly:
"How should we then therefore live?"
Remember:
-Ethics Test this Friday: April 26th
-Readings assigned have been: 282-289, 292-296; 297-315, 308-318, 320-326,331-343,
347-353.
We should then therefore live by the way we were brought up by our parents and by the way of our religion. If your parents taught you a system of right from wrong, then live your life based on that system. If they taught you to be selfish and to fend for yourself no matter the consequences on others, then live your live in that matter. You can't go around living life based on other peoples principles and morals. If you have a religion then there is probably thousands of ways it teaches you right from wrong and whats moral and whats not. Then therefore live your life the way you want to and the way you were raised too.
ReplyDeleteThese all have their merits and deserve a spot in the commonplace, But I think either Nietzsche or Plato hit the proverbial target when they set aside the comparative set of morals and found some way to come upon an efficient code of ethics. Nietzsche was based more around relativism and decided nothing matters with respect to other people's morals and we should create our own to make the world exciting and better. Plato, on the other hand found non-gradational "rights" upon which to base a character. He was concerned with metaphysics as well, like truth, and wanted us to strive towards that. I think we should combine them, giving partial essence to integrity, honesty, and truth, but not place an extreme amount of importance to them, only applying them as soft guidelines.
ReplyDeleteWe should live how we think we should ourselves. We should live for ourselves and not others. We don't need a certain way of living, even though we have some rules. We usually live the way we are raised by our parents or family or whoever you live with. Once you start going to school and make friends we learn how our friends live and start to maybe follow some of their thoughts or ways of living. The more older we get, I think the more we learn different ways of living and have our own thoughts rather than our parents.
ReplyDeleteI believe that everone determines how they should live by the way they were raised and what religion they grew up in. If you were taught at a young age that giving is good then you wil give when you are successful. If you grow up with nothing then you strive to own objects to call your own. I believe that most children will become similar to their parents because this is all they believe in unless the child has a horrible childhood due to the parents. If they see a family member that always fails they will try harder to become better because they see how other people look at failures.
ReplyDeleteWe should live how we were raised by our families. The only people determining how we should live should be our family and most importantly ourselves. Our parents teach us what right and wrong is. We discover rights and wrongs as we live and learn from mistakes. Everyone's rights and wrongs are going to be different due to the different households. Parents raise their kids to be the best and its whether or not the kids learn from that and use it in everyday life. Live from your own moral standards, thoughts, and opinions.
ReplyDeleteI believe one should live using a mix of utilitarian and objectivist views. When actions hurt another, one must use utilitarian standards in order to decide the best course of action, but when an action can only help, one may use objectivist decisions in order to avoid draining themselves dry in order to help the perpetually helpless.
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