RMPS NAB

RMPS NAB

1. Euthyprho

   • Where does morality come from?
     • God or the gods?
     • Ourselves (reason)?
   • Once God/the gods decree something is right does it become right or are some things right regardless of what God/the gods say?
   • raises the possibility of a higher authority than God/the gods
   • the Greek gods were fickle
   • Socrates

2. Divine Command Theory (Religious Authority)

   • God is right/moral
   • holy books e.g. Bible
     • interpretations
   • moral code e.g. 10 commandments

3. Utilitarian

   • greatest good for the greatest number
   • Act
     • outcome of actions
   • Rule
     • following agreed rules
   • consequential ethics
   • women should have "perfect equality" J. S. Mill

4. Kantian Ethics

   • Duty - determined through reason
   • intention
   • categorical imperative - universal, must be applied to everyone in ever situation
   • good will

5. Kant in relation to gender

   • women cannot be 'used' as an ends to a man's gratification
   • it is never a man's duty to assault a women
   • domestic violence goes against common sense or reason and therefore it cannot be right
   • the universal maxim cannot be applied since men would not want to be violated therefore they shouldn't violate women

6. media portrayal of women

   • housewives
     • portrayed as being happy in this role with no desire to change
   • unintelligent
   • focus on body image to appeal to men's taste

7. Feminism

   • keeping women 'in their place' is morally wrong
   • women have rights
   • women are not inferior in ability etc
   • they must be given choice and opportunities in all things
   • campaigned for equality - 1970 Equal Pay Act etc
   • "the housewife is an unpaid employee" - Greer

8. Developing World

   • 2012
     • 800 women die in childbirth or soon after ever day
       • 99% of those are women
     • younger women are more at risk - less developed
   • 1990 - 2010 mortality dropped by 50%
     • result of millennium development goal/UN
   • those in rural communities more at risk