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THESIS 2 OBJECTIVE VS SUBJECTIVE

Morality is the belief about what is right or wrong behavior. Morality is divided into two
namely Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology. Under moral philosophy, there are two
sources of morality namely the objective and subjective views.

The objective view of morality is based on actions that are good or evil within itself.
These actions are said to have their own intrinsic value. This view or source of morality
is based on the natural law and God. In this source of morality, the natural law is the
true order of all things. While, God is considered as a supernatural being and the
absolute one.

In this kind of view, morality is absolute because there is an existing set of rules and
commandments written on the sacred scriptures that shod be followed. There is a
universal thought of what acts are good and bad. People could immediately discern or
identify which acts are good or evil because of the existence of the basis which are the
scriptures and God. People would know already of the act their doing is a violation of
the natural law or the commandments stated by God.

In accordance with this view, the acceptable example is the existence of the ten
commandments that are given by God. This automatically means that people are
obliged to follow these given rules. This is how the source of morality or the objective
view identifies good and evil.

The second source of Morality is the subjective view. This view solely states that the
morality of an action is based on an individual's perception alone. In this view, morality
is changing because a person, which makes morality subjective, has his/her own
viewpoint about things, and time can constantly change the viewpoint itself. Also, we all
know that people are very easy to be persuaded by things that others say and that
alone can make them change their perception or view on something. Unlike the
objective view which considers standards in classifying whether an action is good or
evil, in subjective view, there are no standards involved. It only concerns the person's
perception in classifying a morally good or bad action.

For instance, divorce can set as a good example for this view because subjectively
speaking, divorce is not always wrong ; it can also be considered justifiably right
depending on the situation which is when there are sexual harassments involved
between marriage couples.
* Example: To clearly differentiate both views, same sex marriage is a good example. In
an objective view, it is morally wrong because the action itself violates the dignity of
marriage. But in subjective view, it is morally right or wrong depending on the situation
involved.

Ethical Relativism : These opposing views about morality are evident in the different
ethical theories. Ethical theories are means or ways to justify an ethical decision. One of
these ethical theories is ethical relativism also known as moral relativism. This particular
ethical theory claims that there are no absolute or universal moral principles. Based in
ethical relativism, morality is based on culture, social group and historic period. Every
culture has its own standards of moral actions. An action is regarded to be right or
wrong depending on the society judging it. For example, in the Muslim society,
polygamy is considered morally right based on their culture but in the context of
Christianity, it is morally wrong.

In addition, ethical relativism is based on te norms of a variety of social groups and


morality changes through time.

Under moral philosophy, there are two sources of morality namely objective and
subjective views. In objective view, morality is unchanging, absolute and it is based on
natural law and God. On the other hand, in subjective view, morality is based on an
individuals perception and it changes.This opposing views are evident in various ethical
theories. One of which is ethical relativism, in which morality is based on culture, social
group and historic period.

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