Ethics in Social Science

ETHICS IN SOCIAL
SCIENCE
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SOCIAL SCIENCE 1
Q1.
Universal Ethical egoism is the psychological normative position which defines that all
person should pursue their interest exclusively. According to this, a person should treat
himself with higher regards than others (Czupala, 2013). Its principle is "Everyone should do
what is in his interests" (Czupala, 2013). For example: When two persons X and Y are
working on the same case and both have 50% partnership in completing the case.
Responsibility of each person is to do their work with accuracy. X identifies that Y conducted
mistake in various part. According to this theory, X should only concentrate on his part.
Instead of correcting the mistake he should think that Y will get low marks and he will get
more marks. Strength of this theory is that a person can entitle with more benefits than others
(Czupala, 2013). The weakness of this theory is that it makes a person selfish, instead of
thinking about other people, environment and world as a whole, he/she only cares about their
self-interest (Czupala, 2013).

SOCIAL SCIENCE 2
Q2.
Divine command theory states that any action will be counted as morally good if it is
commanded by God (Koons, 2012). People are well aware that in order to make themselves
morally strong they need to accept the importance of God or supreme power (Koons, 2012).
For example, A person decides to read all the scriptures and book which holds information
about the divine power of God. After consuming the knowledge in his subconscious mind, it
will be set that God is the one who created this world, God is running this world, eventually,
he is the one who will destroy this world and, in the end, he will again re-create this world.
He is the reason behind every cause and every human is the reflection of God. Strength of
using this theory is that it gives positive vibes to the person and give a ray of rope (Koons,
2012). The identified weakness of this theory is that sometimes people stuck in there thinking
the process and cannot able to identify what is ethical or what is unethical? Therefore, it is
extremely important that a person should use his/her own intelligence before accepting any
command or advice from anyone or from any scriputure.