Exam 12: Are There Objective Truths About Right and Wrong?

Describe the differences between the following views, noting their various strengths and weaknesses: (i) descriptive cultural relativism, (ii) agent relativism, and (iii) speaker relativism.

__________ argued, "We must have more to go on in the moral life than our own human faculties. In particular, the possibility of success in the moral life requires something which enables us to get out of skepticism. The Christian God has such a function."

According to emotivism, "stealing is wrong" means more or less the same as

Expressivism attempts to solve simple subjectivism's inability to give a plausible account of moral discussion and disagreement by arguing that when they give arguments for their views, they are

Divine command theory suffers from which of the following weaknesses?

The Divine command theory holds that an action is morally wrong because

Which of the following claims is inconsistent with divine command theory?

The qualified attitude theory does not include which of the following among its ideal conditions?

The qualified attitude theory claims that when

__________ argued, "If [God's] will has any cause, there must be something antecedent to it, and to which it is annexed; this it were impious to imagine. The will of God is the supreme rule of righteousness, so that everything which He wills must be held to be righteous by the mere fact of His willing it. Therefore, when it is asked why the Lord did so, we must answer, because He pleased. But if you proceed farther to ask why He pleased, you ask for something greater and more sublime than the will of God, and nothing such can be found."

Descriptive cultural relativism claims that