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Personally I do not believe it can, this is due to the fact that you could be faced with the situation that a terrorist will kill one thousand people and only you can stop him. Now absolutist ethics would say that you cannot kill the terrorist as killing is always wrong, but i think that by not killing the terrorist you are effectively condemning the one thousand people to death therefore i consider this to be morally wrong more so than killing the terrorist.
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Moral absolutism is the school of thought in which actions are regarded as inherently?
Moral absolutism views all actions as either moral or immoral.
What Moral absolutism deny?
Moral Absolutism denies that Cultural Norms and Customs define morally right behavior.
What ideas opposed absolutism?
Absolutism is opposed to moral relativism, that denies the existence of universally applicable moral principles.
Can moral absolutism be justifed?
A:Moral absolutism is an ethical view that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong, regardless of other contexts such as their consequences or the intentions behind them. Saint Augustine, who was a famous early proponent of moral absolutism, said that it was not even permissible to tell a lie in order to prevent a great evil such as a murder. He said that by lying to a potential murderer about the whereabouts of his intended victim, we would be condemning ourselves to hell in order to extend someone's stay on earth and perhaps save the potential murderer from hell. On this rather extreme view, moral absolutism is always justified. It has been noted that in later life, Augustine found practical reasons not to follow his own standards, but could always justify his actions without compromising his stated position.Most people would find it difficult to justify moral absolutism. They would say that it is proper to tell a lie not only to avoid a possible murder, but even to avoid unnecessary grief for a bereaved person. It can be justified to assault a person contemplating a serious crime, even though that person is, as yet, innocent of any crime. On this view, moral absolutism is not justified.
What is admirable moral absolutism?
all of the avobe
Is it right to torture the suspects?
Torture is a heinous activity and cannot be justified by any moral means.
In moral absolutism shades of grey in thinking?
That they do not exist
In order to evaluate moral judgements there must be a?
A valid criticism for moral absolutism is that In order to evaluate moral judgments there must be a ?
What communities demonstrate admirable moral absolutism?
Many religious communities have a moral absolutist code of ethics. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all major world religions that demonstrate moral absolutism with strict rules for behavior and clear definitions of right and wrong.
Which ethical position has been criticized as a source of ethical imperialism?
Moral Absolutism
Which to idea mentioned in the passage is most clearly an example of moral absolutism?
"The answer is clear to me."
What was Arthur Miller trying to show audiences in The Crucible?
the crucible is a political comentary itself on the salem witch trails.
