Moral Philosophy is the philosophic study of moral values and rules. Here, Moral philosophy is addressed through meta-ethical questions about the nature of moral judgement that\u00a0 addresses metaphysics, semantics, epistemology, and psychology of morality (Chingosho, 2006) .\u00a0 According to Garner and Rosen (1967) there are three different types of Meta-ethical problems: what is the meaning of moral terms or judgments? What is the nature of moral judgments? How may moral judgments be supported or defended? Consequently, Williams tries to address these underpinning arguments of defining what is good, bad, right and wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, one problematic\u00a0notion to Moral Philosophy, Is whether everyone can be moral?\u00a0Imagine people\u00a0that oppose morality.\u00a0Mr X for example, an\u00a0individual\u00a0in despair and\u00a0hopelessness.\u00a0Why should I do anything? \u00a0Why should I\u00a0care if my life is meaningless?\u00a0A man that may not be persuaded. As society we could help him, give him some reason to care about something, or argue a point of view, but is reasoning going to make him?\u00a0 He is to many moralists a real challenge to moral reasoning.<\/p>\n
There are many other\u00a0important areas that Williams addresses, such as Subjectivism, Relativism and Utilitarianism. As with Subjectivism there can be no objective moral judgement. For example, a man\u2019s moral judgement is a mere state of ones own attitudes. Moral judgements, therefore, cannot be determined as true and so is inevitably subjective towards individual opinion. In regards to Relativism, what I found interesting was determining moral outlooks between two societies, because moral truth is defined by a collective view of values and beliefs shaped by society.\u00a0Subsequently, people from different societies will inevitably have differing perceived \u201cMoral Truths\u201d; it is a rationale of how one should not criticise the values from another society. In regards to Utilitarianism, it \u00a0holds that there is just one moral principle, which is to seek the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Despite the lack of agreement about how the term is used. It addresses happiness as the one intrinsically good thing. It is thus a form of Consequentialism, which is\u00a0interested in\u00a0the idea\u00a0of what one does has\u00a0consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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