Moral Conventionalism

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A. Justice
B. Definitions
a. Elenchus is a method of questioning someone to test for how genuine and consistent they are in something that was said earlier.
b. Lying is an act of deliberately deceiving or telling false statements with an intention
c. BS is someone who acts like they know what they’re talking about but in reality either doesn’t or does not care
d. Proposition is a statement that expresses a statement that is uncertain. It could be true or false.
e. Correspondence theory of truth determines a true statement by seeing how it relates and corresponds with the world
f. An argument is a discussion where individuals express their diverse sentiments about a topic.
g. Moral skepticism is an ethical theorem that claims that no one has any moral knowledge.
h. Moral Conventionalism is a theory of moral conduct to which the criteria for good and bad are based on general agreement, based on compliance with social norms
i. Unjust Law as defined by King is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
j. Existentialism is the philosophical theory which states that a set of categories governed by authenticity are necessary to capture human existence.
k. Intrinsic good refers to the moral idea of something that is great, just …show more content…

According to Gandhi and Martin Luther King using non-violent actions to fight against the discriminatory actions against the oppression was an important act. This was because they argued that the civil rights of the oppressed could only be achieved by using these nonviolent actions (Chenoweth and Stephan, 2011). The two also argued that only by nonviolent actions would the chances of negotiations be given to the oppressed people as they would have earned the civil rights in a true manner. This manner of resistance is portrayed in King’s use of the extremist whereby these oppressed people are seen to advocate for direct actions that disobeys the law so as to cause a crisis that will enable them to fight the discriminative

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