But this would depend on having a dependable path towards the discovery of ethical truths or the establishment of a universal framework for arbitrating between incompatible moral claims. Ethical relativists deny this possibility because they claim that any rational decision making procedure will have ...
Type 7 encompasses relativist theories such as ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism, and phenomenological sociology; primary representatives here are Blumer and Garfinkel. For Blumer,social behavioris negotiated case by case, not imposed by a hidden structure. Macrostructure is unreal, and the empirical...
The study embraced a relativist ontological stance and subjective epistemic approach, based on the understanding that reality is invariably constructed in relation to a specific frame of reference and shaped by individual experiences and insights [29, 30]. Coding and qualitative thematic analysis were ...
1. How can one distinguish between legal and ethical issues? 2. What is the double-effect principle? 3. How does comparative justice differ from distributive justice? 4. How does a cost-benefit analys What is the difference between relativist and nominalist ontology?
But pointing out the problems for that view is still worth pursuing, if only because one thing philosophers can still do is to argue how the relativist's main ethical claims and even his way of life ultimately fail to take advantage of the greater benefits of a more objectively grounded ...
China’s business sector has been described as facing serious ethical challenges, including corruption and bribery, distributive injustice, environmental pollution, and misspending of public funds. Unethical decision-making in business represents a potentially destabilizing force for government, business, and...
Charlesia is a flourishing liberal democracy, so Alice considers it an ethical imperative to protect Charlesia. In order to do so, Alice hires a group of mercenaries to fight on Charlesia’s side. Since time is of the essence, the mercenaries aren’t given a proper contract that specifies...
This statement is morally sound for subjective relativists: "If we think that inflicting pain on an innocent child for no reason is right (that is, we approve of such an action), then the action is ri As a culture, we do not negotiate very often. We see it as confrontational. When ...
Indeed one can imagine that there might be some inconsistent desire sets which lead to greater flourishing than some consistent desire sets—in which case this constraint is at odds with the ethical one above. But supposing that it is a desideratum to have consistent desires: is ‘rational’ ...
Then chapter 3 offers a debate between a metaethical descriptivist and a nondescriptivist over ‘Boorse's version of the medical model’ (37). One of the main conclusions of this debate is that ‘dysfunction’ is a ‘value term,’ i.e., has evaluative as well as descriptive content. ...