9.4: Review and Discussion Questions
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- Explain the difference between meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Try to identify some issues and questions belonging to each.
- What does it mean to say that ethics is normative?
- What could it mean to say that there are ethical truths?
- Explain the difference between ethical realism, relativism, and subjectivism.
- Explain DCT and the problem arbitrariness presents for it. What better alternative meta-ethical view is open to religious believers?
- Explain what Moral Relativism says.
- How does arbitrariness present a problem for Moral Relativism?
- Why does Moral Relativism fail to support the idea of tolerance and respect for diverse people and opinions?
- Explain the problem of moral change or progress for Moral Relativism.
- Explain the moral reformers’ dilemma as an argument against Moral Relativism.
- What difficulty does subjectivism face in explaining apparent moral reasoning?
- Explain the argument for ethical realism offered by this chapter as a whole.