RISNA D.

PEJO BSIT II-2

MORAL REALISM, EMOTIVISM, UNIVERSALISM, RELATIVISM

Questioning
Instructions:  Just check your Exercises to answer.
1. Can we see love through our senses?
- Yes, with our eyes, we can see why we love that person or thing/s. Through our nose, we will know if
we love that smell or not. Through our ears, we can hear those sounds, music, tunes that we’ll love.
Through our senses, we can differentiate love and we can feel the love.

2. Is “love” mere expression of emotion?

- No, because for me, love is deeper than the mere emotions that we have. If we are going to compare to
emotions, for example, happy and love. In happy, we can just be happy if we want to, but in love, we
can’t just love because we want to. It takes a lot of time for us to love something/someone.
3. Is love as relative for everyone true love?
- No, because there are different types of love. A relatively love is different from true love. You can
easily have and find a relatively love but you can’t easily find and have a true love. You need to have a
deeper emotion to find that true love.

Answering

Instructions:
1. List down three statements you consider as moral realism. Give each an explanation.
a. Moral sentences are sometimes true – the sentence can sometimes be true if it matches how the world really
is.
b. A sentence is true only if the truth-making relation holds between it and the thing that makes it true – the
moral of this will be depending on the truth-making relation and truth-maker. It will only be true if the outcome
and the things depending on it are true.
c. Thus, true moral sentences are true only because there holds the truth-making relation between them and the
things that make them true – it will only be true if the outcome or the correspondence of the sentence are both
true, if any of this thing will be untrue, the result will be contrary to the expected outcome.
2. List three moral terms with their corresponding non-cognitive attitudes you or others consider as moral
emotivism. Give each an explanation.
a. Wrong judgements – judging someone without knowing its feeling or background, I think it is part of the
moral terms corresponding in the non – cognitive attitudes.
b. Guilt and Resentment – after judging someone, these two definitely follow especially if you got your ideas
wrong with the person.
c. Killing is wrong – it clearly states that it is wrong, it is morally wrong and it also tend the meaning of its
moral sentence.

3. List down three examples of moral actions you or others think as moral universalism. Give each an
explanation.
a. Peace – this is one of the universal moral in this world, to have peace not just in the place, people in your
surroundings but also in yourself.
b. Freedom – Everyone has its right of freedom like: freedom of expression, freedom of choice, freedom of
loving someone, freedom of caring for someone. There are lot of ways to have freedom, that is why, it is
considered as a moral universalism.
c. Equal Rights – Equal rights have been considered as a moral universalism because people, everyone, they’ve
been fighting for their rights all this time. Everyone have been longing for this “equal right” and it is considered
as moral because it is for everyone, it is universal.

4. List down three examples of moral actions you or others think as moral relativism. Give each an explanation.
a. Personal Autonomy – it is to have a right to decide for herself/himself and pursue what she/he wanted in life,
regardless of any moral gratified.
b. The freedom to in one’s own interest – the freedom to act that has beneficial to itself. Also, it has the freedom
to what actions and behaviors what they want to do and show.
c. Denying someone’s autonomy – denying to understand someone’s capacity to be him/herself. The person
need to live his/her life according to reasons and motives of the people/world.