To each his own.
This ideal, which is sometimes expressed as "live and let live," is incompatible with ethical subjectivism.
What is tolerance?
This theory blends divine command theory and cultural relativism.
What is civil religion?
This theory proposes that God commands or approves something because it is right prior to the command and independently of one’s culture.
What is natural law theory?
This expresses what a person believes.
What is an opinion?
Under this view, there is no such thing as social reform or social progress.
What is cultural relativism?
This view argues that, because there is no convincing evidence that universal moral truths exist, we can never be certain that they do exist.
What is ethical skepticism?
Robert Bellah believed that this, rather than Christianity, is the dominant religion in the United States.
What is American civil religion?
According to Gordon Allport, these people join churches because faith is meaningful to them as an end in itself.
Who are intrinsically religious people?
These things include opinions, beliefs, and feelings.
What are mental states?
This is the word for a member of the moral community.
What is a person?
In this essay, Stephen A. Satris addresses statements like "Who's to say?" and "Everybody has their own feelings."
What is "Student Relativism"?
This document makes reference to God as the Supreme Judge, and "our firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
"Does God command this particular action because it is morally right, or is it morally right because God commands it?" is known as this.
What is the Euthyphro dilemma?
This type of belief is "a conviction that something is true for which the only evidence is the conviction itself"
What is a mere belief?
These people are relegated to the fringes of the moral community.
What are marginalized groups?
Ethical subjectivists do not necessarily believe that humans have this, which entails responsibility for one's actions.
What is free will?
Studies show that church members, as a whole, are more this than nonmembers.
What is racially prejudiced?
This is the idea that it is sometimes necessary to "overstep" the ethical to follow God's will. Kierkegaard wrote about it in Fear and Trembling.
What is the teleological suspension of the ethical?
According to Judith Boss, "An opinion expresses what a person believes. It does not have to be backed up" by these.
What are reasons or facts?
what is social Darwinism?
He wrote, "Ethical Subjectivism is not merely an idea about the evaluation of homosexuality."
Who is James Rachels?
This person argued that God is the symbol of society and that each society creates God in its own image.
Who is Émile Durkheim?
Some people who perform these sorts of acts, like risking one's life for a moral cause or giving all of one's belongings to the poor, claim that faith in God inspires them.
What is supererogatory?
Satris argues that the goal of "student relativism" is usually to do this, rather than to show tolerance towards differing points of view.
What is protect one's own opinions? (Also acceptable: What is to avoid questions or issues?)
Cultural relativism erroneously includes these ideals in its assessment of morality.
What are nonmoral values?