Thursday, May 15, 2008
Ethics and Objectivity
Is ethics an invention of human nature?!? Every culture has their own moral codes. Something that is considered absolutely unacceptable may be considered a norm. In this chapter of the book Problems from Philosophy the author provides two examples of cultural moral acts. One of the examples was of a Pakistani 12 year old boy that is accused of romantic involvement with a 22 year old women of higher class. His punishment is his sister publicly raped by four men. She really had nothing to do with the incident. Ethical reasoning seems to come natural, and is justified differently in various cultures. I really like Davis Hume's quote in this chapter, "The life of a man is of no more importance to the universe then that of a oyster."
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I do agree that every culture does have different morals. I have traveled around the world about 3 or 4 times and everywhere is different.
Every place I went to had there own ways of taking care of things.
Wow, that is a pretty crazy example. But like you said, each society will act accodingly to what they believe is right or wrong.
so i guess it's hume that set it straight for humans that we are the smallest bits in the pieces that make up the universe. i think it's nice being so insignificant, we as humans have quite a bit to look forward to. right?
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