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CEV 2ESO - 06 Moral relativism and moral objectivism - Contenido educativo

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Subido el 21 de julio de 2023 por César Pedro P.

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Moral relativism and moral objectivism

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As we have seen, moral rules are made by your conscience, they are your personal opinions 00:00:00
about what is right or wrong. 00:00:07
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. 00:00:28
Think about slavery, for example. 00:00:32
This is something that today we consider absolutely immoral and unacceptable, but in the past 00:00:34
it was quite normal, because there was slavery during antiquity, and it was a common social 00:00:40
practice. 00:00:46
So what happens here? 00:00:48
Is it that they were wrong in the past, they didn't realize that slavery was immoral? 00:00:50
Or is it simply that they had a different morality that for them was right and for us 00:00:57
is immoral? 00:01:04
This is a big question, and there are different ways to answer to this question, different 00:01:05
philosophical points of view about this. 00:01:11
One of them, one of these points of view, is called moral relativism. 00:01:15
According to moral relativism, the rules, the moral rules that we follow are relative. 00:01:21
They depend on the historical moment and the society we live in, because moral rules, for 00:01:27
relativists, are learned. 00:01:34
They are the things our parents, our teachers, our friends, our society, tell us that are 00:01:36
correct and incorrect. 00:01:42
So if we grow up in a different society, they will give us different norms, and we will 00:01:45
consider correct or incorrect different things. 00:01:50
Now think about this for a moment. 00:01:54
If relativism is correct, then we have no right to say that slavery is absolutely immoral 00:01:57
and incorrect, because in the past they had a different morality and they saw things otherwise. 00:02:04
We can say, from a relativistic point of view, is that for us morality is incorrect. 00:02:11
For ancient Romans, for example, morality was all right. 00:02:18
Now there is a different point of view about this, which is called moral objectivism. 00:02:23
For moral objectivists, morality is objective, it is not subjective. 00:02:28
So this means that morality is something that exists in itself. 00:02:34
There are some things that are absolutely right and absolutely wrong. 00:02:40
For example, slavery is absolutely wrong for an objectivist. 00:02:44
The problem is that people in ancient times, like the Romans, didn't know, didn't realize, 00:02:48
they were not aware of the immoral circumstances that appear in slavery. 00:02:55
According to moral objectivism, every human being, by nature, has the possibility to determine 00:03:03
what is right and wrong. 00:03:12
So there are some basic moral rules that are part of our human nature that are not learned. 00:03:15
Of course, many of the things we do and consider correct or incorrect are learned, but for 00:03:21
a moral objectivist, some of them, very basic, are not learned, they are part of our nature. 00:03:26
And that's what permits an objectivist to determine that some moral rules should be 00:03:33
valid for everybody, regardless of the time and place we live in. 00:03:40
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