[ge 8] ethical relativism
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Ethical Relativism
This holds that ethical or moral values/beliefs are relative to the various individuals or societies that hold them.
objective right and wrong
.according to the ethical relativists, there is NO what?
Personal or Individual Ethical Relativism and Social or Cultural Ethical Relativism
two forms of ethical relativism
Personal or individual ethical relativism
Ethical judgments and beliefs are the expressions of the moral outlook and attitudes of individual persons. hence, for these ethical relativists, there is no objective standard of right and wrong inasmuch as the “individual person” is the basis of moral judgments.
diversity of moral values, moral uncertainty, situational differences
three possible reasons that support ethical relativism
self-contradictory, it goes against reality, criticisms against ethical relativism, removes possibilities of consensus
criticisms against ethical relativism
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