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Dialectic
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Social method between a superior and an inferior: Teacher:
Student
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Inferior is to discover the Good: what is best for society
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Preserve status quo
Thus abortion and homosexuality would be considered social evils and not allowed for under this method
Scholastic
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Social method between two educated equals: Lawyer vs. Lawyer
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Judge is to decide what is best for society based on reason and arguments
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How Justice is best served
Thus abortion and homosexuality would not be permitted because the individual must submit to what is best for the whole society
Meditations
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Individual method where the person alone discovers the Truth of what is best for himself
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Freedom is the key to discovery
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Under this method abortion and homosexuality would be
permitted. People are free to do what they want as long as they
do not harm themselves.
Linguistic
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Individual method of deciding the meaning of the concepts used to settle disputes
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Equality is the standard for settling disputes where all individuals (or concepts) are treated as equals.
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Under this method abortion would be permitted if the fetus is not
considered equal to the mother. Women are equal to men.
Homosexuality would be permitted. They are to be treated as
anybody else.
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