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Agree or Disagree with the statement: “There is No Objective Right and Wrong because People Never Agree about what is Right and Wrong”

Introduction

A good percentage of people around the world agree on the fact that “There is No Objective Right and Wrong because People Never Agree about what is Right and Wrong”. I also agree with this statement since if we look into the broad subject of ethics we will find this statement absolutely true. Ethics may be defined as the knowledge of moral values and duties or as the study of the ideal human character, actions, and ends. The term may also refer to a treatise on morals. Every religious tradition advocates high standards of human behavior, and in that sense, all religious communities have a moral component. The concept of “ethics,” however, emerges from the Western philosophic tradition

Discussion

According to Aristotle, ethics focuses on acts performed in view of a goal or an end. The acts chosen may hit or miss the mark; also, human beings are able to choose better and worse goals. The distinguishing characteristic of the kinds of action of interest in ethics, then, is that these deal with things that “could have been different.” By contrast, the distinction between ethics and the productive sciences is that the goal is not to make a “finished” product. Rather, the goal is to live in a certain way, so that the end of ethics is itself found in the living of a good life (Broad, p.116). Furthermore, it implies that ethics cannot, or at least should not, seek to establish certainties of the type aimed at in physics (Broad, p.117).

There are some theories of ethics which move from this descriptive point to various kinds of prescriptions. Aristotle himself proposed to think about moral action in connection with the cultivation of virtues, understood as habits or dispositions to act in ways that could be considered excellent. The presupposition of such thinking is that one has already been trained through living in a particular familial and social setting to make judgments about right and wrong.

Other theorists proceed in ways that differ from Aristotle's. “Consequentialists,” for example, advance a prescription of the following form: Always act in the way that will bring about the best results. This suggests that the form of a good life is one in which human beings, over time; try to do ...