CULTURAL MORAL RELATIVISM
Many people claim to be cultural moral relativists without understanding the full breadth, depth and scope of it. In this essay you will discover exactly what cultural moral relativism is and I will present a couple of arguments against it to let you decide if you really are a cultural moral relativist. The attitudes and beliefs behind cultural moral relativism are widely accepted by those who don’t fully understand what it is. If you wonder if abortion is right or wrong, look to your culture and it will tell you if it is acceptable or not because there is no right or wrong, no objective moral truths. If 51% of your culture believes abortion is right, it is. Just do what is socially acceptable in your culture. Ruth …show more content…
Moral relativists claim that having a disagreement is proof that there are no morally objective truths. I disagree. One person may believe that mountains grow and are like plants, another may believe that mountains are made of piles of rocks, put there by giants, this disagreement is not proof that mountains do/don’t physically change. I may believe men should be treated better than women and my friend may believe we should treat women better than men, our disagreement is not sufficient reason to decide that there is not objective morality found in equality. Just because cultures may seem to not have any common values does not mean that “nobody is ever right or wrong. Despite the existence of moral disagreement, it is still quite possible that an individual or an entire culture, such as Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany are simply mistaken.” …show more content…
“In the end, moral disagreement is simply a sociological observation that proves nothing about the true nature of morality.” (Beckwith) If culture moral relativism is true, then every culture is right. If cultures are right then it’s impossible for cultures to disagree with each other. Cultures disagree, so culture moral relativism is false. (class notes) Culture moral relativism is a rather convenient and lackadaisical way to look at morals and values. If a go-with-the-flow theory speaks to you then this one is for you. Culture moral relativism is lacking progress and disagreement, two things that many theories have and engage in. “Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it.”(Midgely) Let’s live in
Many people claim to be cultural moral relativists without understanding the full breadth, depth and scope of it. In this essay you will discover exactly what cultural moral relativism is and I will present a couple of arguments against it to let you decide if you really are a cultural moral relativist. The attitudes and beliefs behind cultural moral relativism are widely accepted by those who don’t fully understand what it is. If you wonder if abortion is right or wrong, look to your culture and it will tell you if it is acceptable or not because there is no right or wrong, no objective moral truths. If 51% of your culture believes abortion is right, it is. Just do what is socially acceptable in your culture. Ruth …show more content…
Moral relativists claim that having a disagreement is proof that there are no morally objective truths. I disagree. One person may believe that mountains grow and are like plants, another may believe that mountains are made of piles of rocks, put there by giants, this disagreement is not proof that mountains do/don’t physically change. I may believe men should be treated better than women and my friend may believe we should treat women better than men, our disagreement is not sufficient reason to decide that there is not objective morality found in equality. Just because cultures may seem to not have any common values does not mean that “nobody is ever right or wrong. Despite the existence of moral disagreement, it is still quite possible that an individual or an entire culture, such as Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany are simply mistaken.” …show more content…
“In the end, moral disagreement is simply a sociological observation that proves nothing about the true nature of morality.” (Beckwith) If culture moral relativism is true, then every culture is right. If cultures are right then it’s impossible for cultures to disagree with each other. Cultures disagree, so culture moral relativism is false. (class notes) Culture moral relativism is a rather convenient and lackadaisical way to look at morals and values. If a go-with-the-flow theory speaks to you then this one is for you. Culture moral relativism is lacking progress and disagreement, two things that many theories have and engage in. “Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it.”(Midgely) Let’s live in