Evaluate, in a single word, the quality of the inference fro…
Evaluate, in a single word, the quality of the inference from the following premise to the conclusion: PREMISE: Different cultures have different moral codes. CONCLUSION: Therefore, there are not objective/absolute truths in morality (claims about what is morally right or wrong are at best true relative to a culture).
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Which of the following is “a normative ethical theory which maintains that there is a privileged moral principle… or principles, prescribing determinate actions, with which it would always be wrong not to act in accordance no matter what the consequences?”
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Bernard Williams claims that Utilitarianism is committed to the claim “that if I am ever responsible for anything, then I must be just as much responsible for things that I allow or fail to prevent, as I am for things that I myself, in the more everyday restricted sense, bring about. What does Williams call this feature of Utilitarianism?
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