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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for Ethical Values
Overview of Ethics

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According to the theory, the moral rightness or wrongness of an act is intrinsically related to the fact that God either commands it or forbids it.
2

The doctrine that what is morally right or wrong is solely a matter of each individual's personal opinion is known as ethical relativism.
3

is the theory that the right action is the one that produces the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people.
4

Ethical , which is also sometimes called ethical universalism, is the view that there are universal and objectively valid moral principles that are relative neither to the individual nor to society.
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The theory of states that people ought always to do only what is in their own self-interest.








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