Humanities Perspectives

How do we as people decide what is moral an what is immoral? This semester as a class we have discussed and analyzed several philosophers’ views on morality and where it comes from. We have discussed: Rachels’ idea of relativism, Nietzsche’s “might makes right, Plato’s divine command, Hume and Stevenson’s Moral sentiment and emotivism, Hobbes and Feinberg’s Egoism, and Hobbes and Rawls’ Social contract theories. Now, how does each one of …

…were right or wrong. This has been fun taking the different theories and deciding whether these acts were moral or immoral according to them. Some applied to the case, and some not much at all. I guess you have to be like a philosopher and twist everything upside down until it goes with what you are saying. If you are not able to do so then just make it up like philosophers tend to do.