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Ethics: Utilitarianism

Ethics: Cultural Relativism

'The greater good for the greater number'

Conclusion

'The view that morality is relative to culture'

  • Animals are killed by hand with a sharp knife which cuts the jugular vein
  • There is no pre-stunning of the animal.
  • RSPCA says it causes “unnecessary suffering”.

KQ

Emotivism

To what extent do ethical

and scientific knowledge differ?

Topics:

Ethics: Cultural relativism, Utalitarianism and Emotivism.

Science: Inductive reasoning and Paradigm shifts.

'Moral statements only express the speaker's feelings about the issue'

Paradigm shifts

'a framework containing commonly accepted views to structure the direction that research should take and how it should be performed.'

Original Paradigm – Spontaneous Generation

Paradigm shift occurred in 1880s that proved that cells come from pre existing cells

New Paradigm – theory of Biogenesis

Inductive reasoning

Use of embryonic stem cells in science

RLS

'10 out of the 18 patients experienced substantial improvements in how well they could see, according to the study published in the journal The Lancet'

small observation used to infer a bigger theory

By Lauren Rigney

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