Essays on Elements Of Moral

Ethical and cultural relativism have been defined as differences in opinion among people from different cultures as a result of their belonging to such cultures. Put differently, as a result of growing up in different cultural environments, people acquire certain sets of beliefs which are distinct from those of persons who grew up in other cultures. The end result is that both groups of persons have different beliefs about what is right or wrong as a result of the cultural conditioning that they have undergone. Proponents of the cultural relativism school of thought have argued that as a result of these differences in ...

Dogs are man’s best friend and usually the relationship between man and his four-legged friend is one to be studied and admired. Mostly we often concentrate on what we can teach dogs but no one ever contemplates on what we can learn from dogs. Dogs are some of the happiest animals in the world and there is a secret to their happiness that we can learn from to attain a happier life like dogs. Our four-legged friends are usually unaffected by external events like we humans are. These animals which live in packs sometimes, highly value all the members ...

When President Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation in 1863 ethics and fundamental moral values are perceived by numerous historians to have been his key motivations. Ethics is thought to have played a significant role in the American civil war. The union states advocating for phasing out and eventual extinction of slavery while the confederate states insisted on a slave driven cotton based economy. The union states were of the opinion that no human being should be subjected to suffering, torture and forced labor for the benefit of another human being. We are introduced to the concept of ethical subjectivism, which states ...

Over the years, man has embarked on explaining his relationship to the environment. There has been an increasing emergence of theories that seek to describe the social, biological, and physical environment in which man resides. These theories and school of thoughts have been instrumental in helping people to gain a better understanding of the universe and the relationship of the human race to the universe. These theories and school of thoughts are based on skills such as observation, conducting of experiments, and the analysis of these experiments. This means that the validity of knowledge regarding the relationship of the human ...