What is Ethical Subjectivism?
Ethical Subjectivism is the idea that our moral opinions are based on feelings and nothing more. This means that there is no such thing as objective right or wrong.
If I think that it's right it is. When a person states that they feel something is morally right or bad they are stating that they approve of it. Nothing else.
Emotivism is a part of subjectivism that uses language to convey ideas and influence the beliefs and attitudes of others towards certain things. It is not used to tell people what is true or false in their beliefs. This part of subjectivism puts a lot of weight onto disagreements. It recognizes that disagreements come in hundreds of ways and forms.
Examples of Subjectivism
There is a small child holding a candy bar. You want it, so you take it. That is your gut reaction so you are morally right.
You have siblings. Your younger brother is yelling and being quite annoying. Instead of yelling back for him to be quiet you smack him. Since that was based on a feeling it is morally right despite that problem with that.
Arguments against it!
Any kind, shape, or form of an argument can be used as a reason against subjectivism because it cannot solve disagreements. If I feel like taking candy from my younger siblings but they feel like eating it, we both can't be right, there would be a disagreement. Another problem is that there is no reason behind this argument just sheer impulsive behavior.
What we think!
I don't like subjectivism simply because morality depends on reason. Subjectivism has no reason behind it whatever is right in that moment is morally acceptable, so if I feel like slapping someone then it is right and I cannot be punished for it. To me it feels like a bad moral theory because humans are a race based on feeling but we must have reason behind those feelings. It would be opting out of morality if
Ethical Subjectivism is the idea that our moral opinions are based on feelings and nothing more. This means that there is no such thing as objective right or wrong.
If I think that it's right it is. When a person states that they feel something is morally right or bad they are stating that they approve of it. Nothing else.
Emotivism is a part of subjectivism that uses language to convey ideas and influence the beliefs and attitudes of others towards certain things. It is not used to tell people what is true or false in their beliefs. This part of subjectivism puts a lot of weight onto disagreements. It recognizes that disagreements come in hundreds of ways and forms.
Examples of Subjectivism
There is a small child holding a candy bar. You want it, so you take it. That is your gut reaction so you are morally right.
You have siblings. Your younger brother is yelling and being quite annoying. Instead of yelling back for him to be quiet you smack him. Since that was based on a feeling it is morally right despite that problem with that.
Arguments against it!
Any kind, shape, or form of an argument can be used as a reason against subjectivism because it cannot solve disagreements. If I feel like taking candy from my younger siblings but they feel like eating it, we both can't be right, there would be a disagreement. Another problem is that there is no reason behind this argument just sheer impulsive behavior.
What we think!
I don't like subjectivism simply because morality depends on reason. Subjectivism has no reason behind it whatever is right in that moment is morally acceptable, so if I feel like slapping someone then it is right and I cannot be punished for it. To me it feels like a bad moral theory because humans are a race based on feeling but we must have reason behind those feelings. It would be opting out of morality if