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Ethical Theories Response Paper

A.J. Winn

Ethics – 4510-009

Trevecca Nazarene University

Author Note

This paper was prepared for MHR 4510 Ethics: Personal and Professional, taught by Matt

Hastings.
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Ethical Theories Response Paper

Ethical Theories Response Paper

“Cultural relativism says that it is not each person but each person’s culture that is the

standard by which actions are to be measured.” (p.29) “Ethical egoism says we should not fear

selfishness but rather embrace it as the highest principle of morality.” (p.43)

I understand ethics to be the morals and mentality we are born with. It is developed soon

after with who raises us and their beliefs of what is right and wrong. Once we are introduced into

society this philosophy changes again, unless a person keeps the ethical egoism that they

hopefully were introduced to first and hung on to. I think that if your core beliefs are doing right

from the beginning, and have good convictions we will face adversity, pushing through them,

without hurting anyone else in the process. It requires doing the right things. Divisions that we

employee of our own futures reflect on others. How we integrate these visions through our

behaviors and other people, is the culture that we will pass on to our children.

Starting as children, we learn to share. And growing up with advantages or

disadvantages, with the correct ethics, one’s choice should still be, to be help another, even if it

isn’t going to help yourself. Ethics are not just about doing right or wrong, it’s about the

mentality overall within the choices you make every day. Consistent behaviors reflect on our

values, and we should cherish what we were taught, if we were fortunate enough as children to

learn what good ethics would be. For me it was learning about Christ, and how he lived.

Understanding other people’s problems as our own, and having a desire to help them as it were

your own need, is a value I would pass on to my daughter. I plan to learn much more of the

philosophies from the authors of the books for this course.