Ethics Essay | Essay

Linda Pastan
This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Scientific Moral Values.

Ethics Essay | Essay

Linda Pastan
This student essay consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis of Scientific Moral Values.
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Scientific Moral Values

Summary: Debates how science conflicts with moral values. Questions if it is possible to make scientific moral judgements.
How deals science with moral values? Can they change due to certain aspects?

Throughout our life we have been taught moral values. Even when we were a child we were told that hurting others is wrong and criminals are bad, because they did something wrong.

But what distinguishes our suggestion? How do we know right from wrong? These are questions we cannot answer. However, we do know that morality is somehow connected to certain principles. Even a dictionary cannot answer these questions by saying " morality are principles concerning right and wrong or good or bad behavior." According to that definition it is still unclear, how we decide whether something is wrong or right. For developing my own definition I thought of the reaction the body has when we believe something is not right. Therefore moral judgments are distinguished by a strange feeling in the stomach that makes us...

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