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Theory of Knowledge. Khadiya Alony. Is authority always right?. Should majority’s morals dictate the rules of authority?. From where do we obtain our sense of right and wrong from?. Parents. Justice/Law. Reason. Dogmas.
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Theory of Knowledge Khadiya Alony
Is authority always right? Should majority’s morals dictate the rules of authority?
From where do we obtain our sense of right and wrong from? Parents Justice/Law Reason Dogmas
“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like – and immorality what they dislike.” Alfred North Whitehead
Authority • Tends to use utilitarianism as an ethical approach.
Russia in the 1900s • Extremely poor. • Hard conditions. • 85% population consisted of peasants.
Tsarism. • Appointed by God. • Divine rule. • Unity.
“There is violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral” What is then good for the people? Should they obey this idea? Benito Mussolini.
“In Tanzania albinos are killed because they believe albinos are the result of a curse, and that their bodies have magical properties. ......172 were last month arrested in connection to the cases - 71 of whom said they had been told by witch doctors to bring them albino body parts.... ....A teacher in the northern town of Arusha has been arrested for killing his own child, who was albino.”
Majority believed it was right. • Should we always abide by what is being told to us?
This is Issei Sagawa. He is a Japanese man who in 1981 murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt.
Issei was... • Born to wealthy parents. • Had a very thin body and odd shape, thus causing him to envy the “curvature, fullness and roundness” of others. • Like many other Japanese men at the time, he adored women with western features. • Both those desires merged and were instilled in his brain. • She was selected because of her health and beauty, those characteristics Sagawa believed he lacked. • Sagawa describes himself as a "weak, ugly, and small man" and claims that he wanted to "absorb her energy".
