An Analysis of the Article, Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response by Jesse Prinz Essay

Student NameInstructor NameEnglish11th Jan., 2015Analytical EssayThis paper is an analytical essay on Jesse Prinzs article, Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response. The analysis of the article focuses on the strategies that the author of the article has employed in persuading his audience so as to achieve his intended goal of making his audience believe that morality is, indeed, culturally conditioned. The paper, therefore, develops the authors argument while at the same time analysing the strategies that the writer has used to effectively persuade his intended audience the paper, therefore, does not merely summarize the Prinzs article.A close analysis of Prinzs main argument in this article reveals that Prinz is a proponent of relativism theory of ethics, and his main aim in this article, therefore, is to argue and to defend moral relativism. To achieve this end, Prinz employs the strategies of persuasion, giving concrete examples, and relying on authority.Prinz began his argument in this article argument by laying a strong foundation for his argument Prinz began his article by persuasively discussing the bases upon which relativism as a moral theory is based.At the beginning of this article, Prinz argued that, in a moral controversy, each of the parties engaged in the moral debate assume that their views are correct, while the views of their opponents are wrong. While the objectivists argue that in such a moral debate only one of the parties can be right, the relativism theory of ethics rejects this view and hold that it is possible for all the parties in the argument to be right. This is because according to relativism moral theory, ethics is based on emotions rather than on reason.Having laid a strong foundation for his argument, Prinz went on to give concrete examples to demonstrate that morality is indeed based on emotions and not on reason. The following are the examples that Prinz gave to demonstrate that morality is based on emotions.First, Prinz argued that a...

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