Subjectivism, Relativism, and Emotivism

Question 1

The doctrine that some moral norms or principles are valid for everyone -universal-
In other words regardless of how cultures may differ in their moral outlooks.

Answer 1

objectivism

Question 2

The view that an action is morlly right if one’s culture approves of it. Moral rightness and wrongness are therefore relative to cultures. So in one culture an action may be morally right; in another culture it may be morally wrong.

Answer 2

cultural relativism

Question 3

The view that an action is morally right if one approves it.
That individuals are morally infalliable and that genuine moral disagreement between individuals is nearly impossible

Answer 3

Subjective Relativism

Question 4

The view that moral utterances are neither true nor false but are expressions of emotions or attitudes.

Answer 4

emotivism

Question 5

That people cannot disagree over the moral facts because there are no moral facts, that presenting reasons in support of a moral utterance is a matter of offering nonmoral facts that can influence someone’s attitude, and that nothing is actually good or bad.

Answer 5

emotivism

Question 6

The view that an action is morally right if one’s culture approves of it. the argument of this doctirne is based on the diversity of moral judgments among cultures: because people’s judgments about right and wrong differ from culture to culture, right and wrong must be relative to culture, and there is no objective moral principles.

Answer 6

Cultural Relativism

Question 7

This argument is defective, because the diversity of moral views does not imply that morallity is relative to cultures.

Answer 7

Cultural Relativism

Question 8

The alleged diversity of basic moral standards among cultures maybe only apparent, not real. Societies whose moral judgments conflict may be differing not over moral principles but over nonmoral facts.

Answer 8

Cultural Relativism

Question 9

is the view that an action is morally right if ones approves of it. A person’s approval makes the action right,. This doctrine (as well as cultural relativism) is in stark contrast to moral objectivism, the view that some moral principles are valid for everyone.

Answer 9

Subjective relativism

Question 10

though has some troubling implications. it implies that each person is morally infallible and that individuals can never have a genuine moral disagreement.

Answer 10

Subjective relativism