Ethical subjectivism and Shafer Landau Position on it

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What Is Ethical Subjectivism, and Why Does Shafer-Landau Say it Generates Contradictions
Ethical subjectivism is a theory that depicts how the moral judgments on the behaviour and actions of men are arrived at based on other people’s feelings and reactions. People judge an act according to how they feel and think rather than considering the truth and facts about the action. When passing moral judgment, people rely on feelings like love, admiration, hate, disapproval or detestation. Ethical subjectivism causes contradictions since people are not allowed to create objective truths and facts concerning a moral issue; instead, the judgment is subjective (Shafer-Landau 10).
Ethical subjectivism generates contradictions since there is no ideal resolution to resolve ethical judgment. There are no universally accepted standards established to determine the truth of a person’s ultimate moral principles. Judgments passed might be right, false or irrational depending on the arguments applied. Normative theory of subjectivism specify the conditions or rules under which an action is accepted to be morally right or wrong (Shafer-Landau 11). The contradiction in this theory arises from the fact that the rules are set by the self-interested parties who seek to escape anarchy or punishment (Shafer-Landau 12). The laws are only applicable if the person judging the action approves to it and personal disapproval is not put into consideration when passing judgment.

Meta-ethics theory tries to understand whether moral judgments are objectively true or false based on the view of normative ethics. It is difficult to specify the conditions under which actions are morally right or wrong.
The contradictions generated from ethical subjectivism also arises from varying points of view from the society. Different social groups have their own believes on which they base their moral judgment. The rules set by normative subjectivism to pass moral judgment are viewed differently by arguments from democracy, opposes, tolerance and from the atheism views (Shafer-Landau 14). Solving a moral issue directly by acknowledging the opinion of the judge, leaves no space for subjectivism to explain and prove their point of view on the moral judgment. Thus, ethical subjectivism generates contradictions since decisions are based on the feelings of a particular party which might be right or wrong.

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Shafer-Landau, Russ. “The fundamentals of ethics.” (2009): 10-19.