Explain Ross's notion of prima facie duty, and give two examples of the way in which Ross would use it. Mayo contrast an ethics of principles with an ethics of virtues. Explain this difference. Jonathan Bennett, in his essay on the Conscience of Huckleberry Finn, describes a conflict that Hucklebery Finn has in the novel by Mark Twain. Explain this conflict, as Bennett understands it.
Some people think that one ought always to do what one's conscience tells one to do.
Give an example of a stiuation in which it is plausible to say that something is wrong for you but not wrong for me. Give three different sorts of cultural circumstances that may contribute to making something right in one culture and wrong in another. Give examples to illustrate what you say. The relativism of correctness purports to provide an explanation of fundamental ethical disagreement. In class it was said that the relativism of correctness undercuts moral principles of tolerance.