Blog Assignment #4

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PART ONE
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1. Paragraph: Explain in your own words what Moral Relativism is—what do people who hold this view believe?

From what I read I understood that Moral Relativism means that a society's beliefs and values don't reflect or match up with all people in another society or culture. Someone who strongly believes in Moral Relativism would disagree that there is no right set of values that one individual or society should believe in. There is no universal set of values that one person or one group of people should follow, which is why there are many different sets of views and values that people believe in. All people believe in different things which is why there's no room for discrimination when it comes to peoples values and views.

2. Paragraph & Link: Find one online resources related to this topic—not Wikipedia. Explain in a brief paragraph what you learned about this topic through the resource you found; include the link at the end of your paragraph.


From the article I read I understood the Moral Relativism is what's right for you and it's what right for someone else. It's a standpoint to look at views and values and see them as right or wrong. Something that might be right to someone may be wrong in the eyes of someone else. You have to decide what it is that is right for you, someone else can decide it for you or try to influence their own thoughts and beliefs on you.

http://www.moral-relativism.com/

3. Argument: Compose a short argument, in “argument elements” form. I’ll provide the arguable issue; you provide the rest. Make sure each of your premises is a complete sentence, and that your argument doesn’t break any of the rules listed in the first chapter of the Rulebook for Arguments:

Arguable Issue: The arguable issue is whether or not Moral Relativism is a good view to hold.

Conclusion: Moral Relativism is a good view to hold

Premises: Moral Relativism is a good view to hold because:

(1) It lets you decide what's good for you

(2) Your thoughts and views can't be looked at negatively because everyone has different views

(3) It shows that everyone is diffenent and no one is the same

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PART TWO
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The week 4 readings cover two chapters in the Ruggiero book, The Role of the Majority View, and the Role of Feelings. Each student must complete BOTH of the following assignments.

The Role of the Majority View
1. Paragraph: Majority View is a common decision/view amongst a group of people. More than half the people would have to agree on a certain conclusion in order for it to be a majority. Majority View isn't always equal nor is it always fair. The chances of a large group of people agreeing on the same thing are slim to none but that's why there is such thing call a majority. Most things would probably never get solved if there wasn't such thing as a majority. Also, just because the majority of people that vote will win doesn't mean that those majority of people made the right decision or that everything will work out for the best.

2. Argument:

Arguable Issue: The arguable issue is whether or not the Majority View is a reliable basis for ethical decision-making.

Conclusion: Majority View is a reliable basis for ethical decision making

Premises: Majority View is a reliable basis for ethical decision making because:
(1) Not everyone will ever agree so there's need for a majority
(2) Atleast 51% is a good amount to base a decision on
(3) Decisions have to be made in some eithical way and this way is the easiest and most fair

The Role of Feelings
1. Paragraph: Feelings are how individuals express themselves to others emotionally, physically, and through their own expressions. A person's feelings are how they are feeling at a particular time. As humans are feelings constantly change based on daily activities. People use their feelings to talk to people, help people, show people how their feeling or just to release what is building up inside of them. Everyone goes through the same feelings as one another just at different times and for different reasons.

2. Argument:

Arguable Issue: The arguable issue is whether or not our feelings are a reliable basis for ethical decision-making.

Conclusion: Our feelings are NOT a reliable basis for ethical decision-making.

Premises: Our feelings are NOT a reliable basis for ethicaldecision-making because:
(1) In a group of people not everyone is going to be having the same feelings
(2) Our feelings influence us to feel and think different than others
(3) Since our feelings change constantly it's not a reliable thing to base decisions off of

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PART THREE
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The ability to express yourself in your own words is essential in this class. Did you put everything in your own words this time?

I felt that after reading the chapter this assignment was easier for me to write in my own words. When I first read this assignment before reading the chapters I felt that this would be a more opinionated assignment where I could express my own definitions for Majority View and Feelings. In this assignment I did put everything in my own words and I feel that it helped me learn and understand things better because I wasn't trying to look for the perfect answer/definition.

What was easiest / hardest about this assignment?

The easiest thing was putting things into my own words because I just wrote based on what I felt, believed and understood. The hardest thing in this assignment was understand Moral Relativism and trying to get a full view of its meaning and how it affects my life.

How will you apply what you learned through this assignment to your everyday life?

I realized how important majority view is and that you should only vote for something that you truly believe in and support so that others aren't effected nagativly based on my decision. I learned to think my decisions through before making them.

How well do you think you did on this assignment? Explain.

I think I did as good as I could have done on this assignment whether or not it's a good assignment or not. I felt that I followed all the directions and took my time completing it to that it would be efficiently done and complete. I used my own thoughts and feelings based on material that I read and felt that I answered all the questions to the best of my ability.