As morality has been studied for boundless periods of times, different concepts, or view points, on morality has been developed and has faded away. Cultural relativism has the base of morality on culture, subjectivism has the base on individuals, and emotivism has the base on attitude. They all do protect morality up until a certain point but eventually contradicts itself and threatens the underlying meaning of morality. However, ethics, based on rational argument, defends morality the best compared to the other three concepts. Cultural Relativism is the idea that one's culture strongly influences one's style of perception and thought. This idea claims that the language, behavior, background, history, tradition, and religion in the culture
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Stating that there is no absolute right or wrong and culture has to become a consideration, morality becomes an indefinite, failing to make any judgments at all. Consequently, every culture and every practice needs to be protected and respected no matter what. Furthermore, the definition itself is illogical. If right and wrong has to be considered with culture, there can be no wrong at all. In other words, cultural relativism ultimately fails by saying that truth is relative, and this will lead to the conclusion of everything is true and nothing is wrong since every practice is derived from the culture. If ethics is determines right or wrong through rational argument, cultural relativism fails in becoming a rational argument, but succeeds in becoming an understanding which is not …show more content…
In determining right and wrong, subjectivists believe that the facts of reality are insignificant; instead, the knowledge about the reality is what is significant, and one will put the effort and attention in order to achieve the knowledge. In most cases, subjectivism can be seen when one disagrees with the official facts, such as laws. A common example of subjectivism is the scenario of a German citizen during WWII who didn't agree with the law of how Nazis treated other races. One day, you ended up hiding some Jewish people in your house and the Nazis showed up making you to report any Jewish people around. Since you strongly disagree with the law, or the "official facts" ,then in Germany, you would lie to the Nazis. This decision purely came from your cognition and belief that all people should be treated equally and determined the wrongness by
Stating that there is no absolute right or wrong and culture has to become a consideration, morality becomes an indefinite, failing to make any judgments at all. Consequently, every culture and every practice needs to be protected and respected no matter what. Furthermore, the definition itself is illogical. If right and wrong has to be considered with culture, there can be no wrong at all. In other words, cultural relativism ultimately fails by saying that truth is relative, and this will lead to the conclusion of everything is true and nothing is wrong since every practice is derived from the culture. If ethics is determines right or wrong through rational argument, cultural relativism fails in becoming a rational argument, but succeeds in becoming an understanding which is not …show more content…
In determining right and wrong, subjectivists believe that the facts of reality are insignificant; instead, the knowledge about the reality is what is significant, and one will put the effort and attention in order to achieve the knowledge. In most cases, subjectivism can be seen when one disagrees with the official facts, such as laws. A common example of subjectivism is the scenario of a German citizen during WWII who didn't agree with the law of how Nazis treated other races. One day, you ended up hiding some Jewish people in your house and the Nazis showed up making you to report any Jewish people around. Since you strongly disagree with the law, or the "official facts" ,then in Germany, you would lie to the Nazis. This decision purely came from your cognition and belief that all people should be treated equally and determined the wrongness by