According to Beauchamp and Childress, What Is the Usual Process

question 35

Multiple Choice

According to Beauchamp and Childress, what is the usual process by which societal moral norms undergo change?

• A) Basic norms of morality are found to be morally suspect and are rejected or altered.
• B) A new theory of morality is developed in the intellectual life of a society and is adopted in place of the old.
• C) Norms are changed and specified in order to develop moral rules with no exceptions.
• D) As circumstances change, people find reasons for saying that a norm has new specifications or valid exceptions or can be outweighed by other norms.

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Definitions:

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