Definitions

1. Moral relativism is a view that claims moral standards are not absolute or universal, but rather emerge from social customs and other sources.
2. Moral relativism is the position that moral propositions do not reflect absolute or universal truths.
3. Moral Relativism is the position that there are many moral frameworks, none of which is more privileged than any other. (Web site)
4. Moral relativism is a concept that right-wingers frequently accuse liberals of.

Moral Absolutes

1. Those who believe in moral absolutes often are highly critical of moral relativism; some have been known to equate it with outright immorality or amorality.

Absolute Morality

1. The problem with absolute morality is that it defaults to moral relativism, by natural situational human conditions.

Moral Judgments

1. Moral relativism, in contrast, grants the possibility of moral judgments that do not accept such limits.

Meaning

1. Evolution and moral relativism go hand-in-hand, for evolution teaches that life is accidental, without meaning or purpose.

Moral Nihilism

1. The essence of the criticism is that moral relativism is "really" moral nihilism or an error theory. (Web site)

Situational Ethics

1. Situational ethics finds the foundation of moral truth in agape, it is thus not moral relativism.

Reader

1. In Moral Relativism: A Reader, this and related questions are addressed by twenty-one contemporary moral philosophers and thinkers. (Web site)
2. We will not take part in this moral relativism, but will merely present the historical facts about the Nazis and let the reader make up his or her own mind. (Web site)

Various Forms

1. It is the opposing position to various forms of moral relativism.

Cultural Relativism

1. For anthropologists working in this tradition, the doctrine of cultural relativism as a basis for moral relativism was anathema.

Anthropologists

1. Virtually all anthropologists reject these forms of moral relativism.

Original Research

1. Descriptive ethics and moral relativism This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims.

Local Culture

1. The other, moral relativism, holds that standards of good and evil are only products of local culture, custom, or prejudice.

Moral Law

1. This unacceptable method tends to be closely linked with moral relativism, and thus encourages indifference to moral law and permissiveness. (Web site)

Moral Value

1. It stands as a compromise between moral absolutism, and moral relativism, where situational human factors, like culture, dictate moral value.

Moral Values

1. Moral values, they argued, are strictly human inventions, a position that has since been called moral relativism.

Distinct Forms

1. There are two distinct forms of moral relativism.

Proponents

1. Unlike moral relativism, proponents of moral objectivism face a unique challenge: explaining why people act immorally.

Morality

1. Ultimately, he argues that moral relativism is untenable and that the best reason for the existence of morality is a moral Lawgiver.

Ethics

1. In ethics, "contextualist" views are most closely associated with situational ethics, or with moral relativism. (Web site)
2. This view of ethics is similar to moral relativism, and is contradictory to moral universalism, and moral absolutism.

Egoism

1. It is often claimed that modern society is breaking up because of excessive "egoism" or moral relativism.
2. In a society which moves between moral relativism and absolutism it is little wonder that egoism becomes confused with egotism.

Moral Relativism

1. Moral relativism rejects the idea of an objective morality, but its proponents do not all agree as to the nature of morality.
2. The origin of immorality Unlike moral relativism, proponents of moral objectivism face a unique challenge: explaining why people act immorally.
3. The philosopher Plato and his student, Aristotle, also believed in universalism, opposing the moral relativism of the Sophists. (Web site)

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