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		Moral absolutism — the belief or theory that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged — suggests that morals are not determined by societal or situational influences.
		Moral absolutists might, for example, judge slavery or childhood female genital mutilation to be absolutely and inarguably immoral regardless of the beliefs and goals of a culture that engages in these practices.
		This rare view of moral absolutism might be contrasted with moral consequentialism — the view that the morality of an action depends on the context or consequences of that action.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/moral_absolutism.html (490 words)

	Moral Absolutism Encyclopedia Article @ SomethingPersonal.com (Something Personal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Moral absolutism is the belief that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are right or wrong, devoid of the context of the act.
		"Absolutism" is often philosophically contrasted with moral relativism, which is a belief that moral truths are relative to social, cultural, historical or personal references, and to situational ethics, which holds that the morality of an act depends on the context of the act.
		Moral absolutists might, for example, judge slavery, war, dictatorship, the death penalty, or childhood abuse to be absolutely and inarguably immoral regardless of the beliefs and goals of a culture that engages in these practices.
	www.somethingpersonal.com /encyclopedia/Moral_absolutism (1073 words)

	Moral relativism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moral relativism generally stands in marked contrast to moral absolutism, moral realism, and moral naturalism, which all maintain the existence of moral facts: facts that entities can both know and judge, whether through some process of verification or through intuition.
		Moral judgments, like religious ones, belong to a stage of ignorance at which the very concept of the real, and the distinction between what is real and imaginary, are still lacking: thus "truth", at this stage, designates all sorts of things which we today call "imaginings".
		Commentators may describe moral relativism as a temporal idea of the "new" that conflicts with absolute moral standards of tradition; however, moral relativism encompasses views and arguments that people in some cultures have held for a very long time (see for example the ancient Taoist writings of Chuang Tzu from the 4th century BCE).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moral_relativism (2951 words)

	Learn more about Morality in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A morality is a complex of concepts and beliefs by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong.
		The efficacy of a morality depends on the social position and political representativeness of the group that espouses it, and on its relationship with the norms of the related society.
		The fields in which the influence of morality is most commonly appreciated are sex-related matters, financial and professional conduct (with the notable example of deontology), and human relationships in general.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/mo/morality.html (1177 words)

	Morality
		A "moral" may refer to a particular principle, usually as an informal and general summary with respect to a moral principle, as it is applied in a given human situation.
		Selected behaviors, seen in abstraction as moral codes, are seen to be common to all human cultures, and reflect, in their development, similarities to natural selection and these aspects of morality can be seen in as the basis of some religious doctrine.
		A moral core is presumed to be formed by experience, including especially parental moral examples, and the slow growth via cognition of a set of conditionings, inhibitions, and concepts of beauty through his or her entire lifetime.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/morality.html (1938 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Moral absolutism
		Moral absolutism is the position that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are right or wrong, regardless of the context of the act.
		It is a subset of moral objectivism, and stands in contrast to situational ethics, which hold that the morality of acts depends on the context of the act.
		Moral absolutists might, for example, judge slavery to be absolutely and inarguably immoral regardless of the beliefs and goals of a culture that engages in these practices.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Moral_absolutism (642 words)

	Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Theories of conduct propose standards of morality, or moral codes or rules.
		Theories of moral conduct can be distinguished from etiquette by their concern with finding guidelines for action that are not dependent entirely on social convention.
		Their theories subdivided moral reasoning into so-called stages, which refer to the set of principles or methods that a person uses for ethical judgement.
	ethics.iqnaut.net (2659 words)

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