Study Questions for Ethics Summer 2007

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May 21

What is the difference between 1st person and 3rd person ethical issues? Give an example. Can an issue be both?

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Identify some standard ethical theories.

What is descriptive relativism? What are cultural universals? Does it follow from the fact that moral values difference among individuals and cultures that there can be no universals?

Assuming that descriptive relativism is true, does it follow that there are no grounds for discussion and persuasion about moral values? If so, why? If not, why not?

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