mpw 2153 week 8.1

MPW 2153MORAL EDUCATIONFARIHAH AHMAD

KDU UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

SOLVING MORAL CONFLICTWEEK 8

NATURE OF A CONFLICT

Oxford:

“A serious disagreement or argument”

“A state of mind in which a person experiences a clash of opposing feelings or needs”

“A serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests”

“Be incompatible or at variance; clash”

“Having or showing confused and mutually inconsistent feelings”


Coser, 1956

Social conflict is a struggle between opponents over values and claims

to scarce status, power and resources.

Pruitt and Rubin, 1986

Conflict means perceived divergence of interest,

or a belief that the parties' current aspirations cannot be achieved simultaneously.

Wall, 1985

“Conflict is a process in which two or more parties attempt to frustrate the other's goal attainment . . . the factors underlying conflict are threefold: interdependence, differences in goals, and differences in perceptions.”


Conflicts may arise under the following situation:

1. A type of rights may clash with another type of rights, or a kind of freedom may clash with another kind of freedom.Not all rights and freedom must be respected because the conflict implies some difficulty in respecting all rights and freedom.

2. Conflicts between one person and another.Same same freedom and right, BUT the resources are scarce.

3. Conflict between various values and concerns.


TYPES OF CONFLIC

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Ethical Conflict

Normative Conflict

(in Social Philosophy)


• A girl named SARA.• She is publicly seen

as a nice and sweet person.

• She is living with a man she’s in love with.

• Sara believes they are both really happy to have each other.

• However!

• The man, which is named Frank, is married.

• Not only that Frank’s married, Sara is aware of that situation, too.

• They share secrets and understand each other well.

Ethical Conflict


• So?• She doesn’t want

Frank to divorce the wife because according to Sara,• Frank and his

wife have kids• wife is really

nice and a very good person.

• Divorce is wrong from her view.

• Sara keep on suffering inside.

Ethical Conflict


• Sara’s case can be examined by discussing:

1. Egoism and General Utility

2. Happiness and duty

Ethical Conflict


Normative Conflict In Social Philosophy

Usually related to freedom, justice, rights, law and sovereignty.

Just like ethical tensions, tensions between values in social philosophy can arise between categories or criteria of the same value

However, in social philosophy, there is the compilation of who has the final authority to judge and resolve problems in a society.

There is also the question as to whether the party wielding authority should show his power through

1. Law

2. Social customs

3. conventions



Justice and Social Utility

Rights and Freedom

EXAMPLES



1. Justice and Social Utility

Social Utility = will think about benefit,

Without considering the cost.

For the society, the costly groups are:

Children + Elderly + Handicapped

So the utilitarian tend to reduce the cost.

BUT, DENYING THESE ADVANTAGED PEOPLE FROM A FULL SHARE OF BENEFIT SEEMS UNJUST!

CONFLICT: JUSTICE VS UTILITY



2. Rights and Freedom

Usually, the of social programmes may affect a person.For example, the expenditure of any social programme is funded through taxes – which are paid by the public. BUT paying taxes is tantamount to a restriction of negative and effective freedom.

A woman has the right to have as many children as she likes, but the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that the right of every child to have nutritious food and medical care for good health.

So to maintain the right of the children are cared, only mothers who can submit to the children’s right can exercise her freedom to have kids.




On the other hand, in pursuit of values can improve and maintain freedom.

For example:Sufficient to employ, train and pay for a police force will ensure the preservation of civil liberties

This shows that the more human rights are respected, the greater will be the growth of human freedom

Similarly, paying workers fair wages will improve their freedom.


As a conclusion, tension often arises between the values of rights and utility, rights and justice, justice and freedom, and utility and freedom.

The problem of resolving values and conflict can become more complicated with the number of social values that come into conflict.

Two, three or all four social values of utility, justice, rights, and freedom may be involved in a conflict in certain social situations, each pulling in a different direction.

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