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Cultural relativism |
metaethical theory that moral standards and values are created by groups of people or cultures and that morality is nothing more than socially approved customs |
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Cultural relativism is NOT |
the same as excusing behavior
the same as tolerance for multicultural diversity |
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Sociological relativism |
the observation that there is disagreement among cultures regarding moral values. It is not a moral theory it does not conclude that value systems are necessarily relative. |
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Social Darwinists |
such as Herbert Spencer, claimed that people from "primitive" cultures were less morally developed than those from European cultures. |
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Disagreement to Social darwinism |
Ruth Benedict and William graham Sumner disagreed arguing that moraluty is relative to each culture. |
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Cultural relativists definition of moral community |
defined in terms of cultural ideas regarding who has moral worth rather than in terms of transcultural moral standards such as dignity and human rights. Thus, cultural relativism can be used to justigfy marginalization or exclusion of certain groups from community. |
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United Nations standards of morality |
there are universal, transcultural, moral standards. nazi war criminals were tried using these standards in Nuremburg trials. |
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moral progress |
does not exist according to cultural relativism, reformers who break laws and disregard social tradition are no better than common criminals. |
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Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas |
Spoke out against darwinists degrading view of primitive simpler cultures. |
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Mandala |
includes within its borders all that has intrinsic moral value , beings of greater importance are located in the center. |
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critiques |
people act more morally when alone vs w/ a group cannot work in pluralistic society universal moral values exist only alternative to conflict is isolationism |
