A Review of the Principles of Ethics in Liberalism

The idea that the real world is devoid of any value or cannot be the source of any value, as well as the particular individualism of liberalism, established a moral school that introduced individual will power and wish as the only source of the validity of moral propositions. Despite the prevalence of liberal ethics, several criticism have been leveled at it. Explaining the school of liberal ethics, this paper seeks to mention some of these critiques. The results of the critical review of this view indicate that the moral school of liberalism should be categorized as a kind of ethical non-realism and, consequently, moral relativism. Hence, the result of moral non-realism is that one can never justify the moral principles of any school of thought. On the other hand, relativity in morality will lead to the invalidity of all moral systems including all relativistic schools.The unreasonable results of relativity in ethics have led the liberalists to speak of obligations such as the need to respect the desires of others, but they have never resolved one ambiguity: while being non-realistic, how can one rely on real disastrous consequences to justify such obligation? The truth is that only by considering real happiness for man on the one hand, and the real outcomes of his voluntary actions, on the other hand, can one create a justified ethical school; happiness which, from the point of view of the religion of Truth, is achieved by nearness to the absolutely Perfect, and to understand the details of the outcomes of human’s voluntary acts, one always needs the guidance of the absolutely Perfect.