{"id":6068,"date":"2021-03-02T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2021-03-02T20:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T01:52:26","slug":"blog-post-3-3-21-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/02\/blog-post-3-3-21-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 3\/3\/21 Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found the comparative of normative ethics to religion to be very interesting. I was raised with a lot of Unitarian Universalist principles in my family. Although we often did not attend sermons, it was still something my parents used to explain the world to me as a kid. I always had a hard time understanding how someone could be so confident that their religion was the right one when there were so many choices. I wonder if that somehow affected my tendency to be willing to hear out ideas in their entirety, even when I don\u2019t agree with them. I also had a difficult time understanding why people relied on religious reasons to be ethical, and I wondered if the goal to get into heaven corrupted the moral action. The TV show The Good Place had a really interesting response to this question and exploring the relationship between intention and consequence in ethics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On an unrelated note, I think the relationship of normative ethics and relational ethics to imperialism to be particularly interesting. A lot of feminists rely on normative ethics in a neo-liberal frame-work to justify excluding multiculturalism and condemning cultural practices that they perceive oppress women regardless of what women in those countries think (ex. the veil in Muslim countries). Meanwhile, relational ethics can also be used to justify actual oppression of women. I think this just goes to show how any ethics code could be used to justify actions that I would consider morally abject, and that neither is universally applicable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found the comparative of normative ethics to religion to be very interesting. I was raised with a lot of Unitarian Universalist principles in my family. Although we often did not attend sermons, it was still something my parents used to explain the world to me as a kid. I always had a hard time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6076,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/6076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}