Exam 2: Subjectivism, Relativism, and Emotivism

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Subjective relativism is the doctrine that:

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Noncognitivism is the view that:

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Objectivists point out there is no necessary connection between tolerance and:

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A common criticism of emotivism is that:

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Subjective relativism implies that in the rendering of any moral opinion,each person is:

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Cultural relativism implies that the abolition of slavery:

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Suppose your culture endorses the view that all wars are wrong.It follows from cultural relativism that your culture:

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Cultural relativism implies that the civil rights leader and social reformer Martin Luther King Jr.was:

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Suppose a culture approves of beheading young men for merely holding hands with a woman.According to cultural relativism,the beheadings are:

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Subjective relativism implies that when Jane says,"I think abortion is wrong," and John replies,"I think abortion is permissible," Jane and John are:

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Some relativists think that disagreements among cultures about the morality of "female circumcision" are evidence for:

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Both objectivists and cultural relativists agree that:

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Objectivism says that:

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Emotivism implies that:

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According to emotivism,to offer reasons for a moral judgment is to:

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For a cultural relativist,when two people in the same culture disagree on a moral issue,what they are really disagreeing about is:

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Cultural relativism may be nearly impossible to apply to moral issues because:

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Objectivists argue that the diversity of moral judgments across cultures may indicate NOT that there's disagreement about moral beliefs,but that:

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Emotivists can admit that thousands of innocent people were killed at the behest of Osama bin Laden and that Ted Bundy killed more than 100 women,but they cannot say that in these events:

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Our commonsense moral experiences suggest that:

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