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Subido el 22 de octubre de 2020 por César Pedro P.

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Where do our moral rules come from?

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As we have seen, moral rules are made by your conscience. 00:00:01
They are your personal opinions about what is right or wrong. 00:00:05
If you think about this for a while, you will realize that different people might have different 00:00:09
moralities because they can have different opinions about what is correct or incorrect. 00:00:15
My morality can be different to your morality, and the morality of a certain country or society 00:00:21
can be very different to the morality of another social group. 00:00:27
Think about slavery, for example. This is something that today we consider absolutely 00:00:31
immoral and unacceptable, but in the past it was quite normal because there was slavery during 00:00:37
antiquity and it was a common social practice. So what happens here? Is it that they were wrong 00:00:43
in the past? They didn't realize that slavery was immoral? Or is it simply that they had a 00:00:51
different morality that for them was right and for us is immoral? This is a big question, 00:00:59
and there are different ways to answer to this question, different philosophical points of view 00:01:07
about this. One of them, one of these points of view, is called moral relativism. According to 00:01:12
moral relativism, the rules, the moral rules that we follow are relative. They depend on the 00:01:21
historical moment and the society we live in, because moral rules, for relativists, are learned. 00:01:29
They are the things our parents, our teachers, our friends, our society tell us that are correct 00:01:36
and incorrect. So, if we grow up in a different society, they will give us different norms and 00:01:43
we will consider correct or incorrect different things. Now, think about this for a moment. 00:01:49
if relativism is correct then we have no right to say that slavery is absolutely immoral and 00:01:56
incorrect because in the past they had a different morality and they saw things otherwise. What we 00:02:04
can say from our relativistic point of view is that for us morality is incorrect. For ancient 00:02:11
Romans for example morality was all right. Now there is a different point of view about this 00:02:18
which is called moral objectivism. For moral objectivists, morality is objective, it is not 00:02:25
subjective. So, this means that morality is something that exists in itself. There are some 00:02:32
things that are absolutely right and absolutely wrong. For example, slavery is absolutely wrong 00:02:40
for an objectivist. The problem is that people in ancient times, like the Romans, didn't know, 00:02:46
didn't realize. They were not aware of the immoral circumstances that appear in slavery. 00:02:52
According to moral objectivism, every human being, by nature, has the possibility to determine what 00:03:02
is right and wrong. So there are some basic moral rules that are part of our human nature 00:03:12
that are not learned. 00:03:19
Of course, many of the things we do 00:03:21
and consider correct or incorrect are learned, 00:03:23
but for a moral objectivist, 00:03:25
some of them, very basic, are not learned. 00:03:27
They are part of our nature. 00:03:30
And that's what permits an objectivist 00:03:32
to determine that some moral rules 00:03:35
should be valid for everybody, 00:03:38
regardless of the time and place we live in. 00:03:41
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César Prestel
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