Cultural relativism

Cultural or moral relativism cannot be correct as all humans share and follow universal norms as they live their everyday lives. Each individual is faced with decisions at time to time, and they make their decision based on what they believe is correct. Most of the things that humans believe in, which are correct, relate back to universal norms. If groups or majorities believe something is right and they teach or praise this belief around the world it can be known as a universal norm (Demuijnck,…

Anthropologist Franz Boas is well-known for promoting the concept of cultural relativism. Meaning, practices, beliefs, and ideas within a certain culture make sense within that culture. As an outsider, certain beliefs or practices of cultures that are different from our own can easily be misunderstood or interpreted incorrectly. Although cultural relativism promotes the idea of respecting and understanding the beliefs and practices of different cultures, when does a certain practice/belief…

the use of relativism in public discourse. In it, he makes solid claims against a certain kind of strong relativism, in which any kind of moral evaluation is thought to be unwise. But thankfully, relativism is a more capacious idea, and can help show us how to be more persuasive in our arguments against Trump. Specifically, Levinovitz lambasts “cultural relativism,” which he loosely defines as “reluctance to take one culture’s norms as authoritative”. He then states that such a relativism…

Cultural Relativism is in many aspects what one group of people finds acceptable may not be accepted by another. For example, the styles of clothing that are popular and considered acceptable among American women is not the same standard of what is acceptable to women whose cultural origins are of Middle East. The case of the Hmong man kidnapping and raping an American woman is one that would be considered of extreme cultural relativism. To be completely honest upon first glance I was appalled…

Moral Cultural Relativism is based on the belief that there is no universal morality, it is based entirely on the traditions of the culture one lives in. This is a subject that is up for debate amongst philosophers. While there can never be a definite conclusion either way, many people have strong opinions on what they feels is the right form of relativism. Ruth Benedict’s theory of moral relativism is based in the common practices and beliefs of cultures. She describes morality as something…

individual relativism, a belief in the individual’s power to make and change, if so desired, what is true for them. Many proponents of societal relativism find their definition of truth to reside in what every culture defines as true and ethical in its own era and area of influence. Still remains the absolutist, one who believes in the absolute…

they should stop what they are doing on their child although it is cultural differences between us and them. One of the ethical area that related to the childrearing issue is cultural relativism. Since childrearing issue became a problem because of the cultural clash, cultural relativism is one way to know the problem closely. In The Fundamentals of Ethics 3rd Edition by Shafer-Landau, the author defines the cultural relativism as "the correct moral standards are relative to cultures or…

"Cultural relativism is an undeniable fact", Jack Donnelly postulates in his journal entitled, "Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights" (Donnelly, J); the axiom rings true not only inside anthropology, but inside the emergency room, whenever two cultures clashes and "the conflict [becomes] confined to differences in belief systems" (Fadiman, A). One example that comes to mind in the recent decades is the confrontation between the Lee family and a public hospital in Merced, California,…

differences entails a respect for cultural differences” The executive board of the American Anthropological Association (69) The executive board of the American Anthropological Association proposal was meant to acknowledge moral diversity in different cultures around the world. This fragment was part of an introductory reading to the essay, “ The Case Against Ethical Relativism” by Louis Pojman. In this essay, he elaborates different arguments against ethical relativism, explains his own…

traditions and different Gods. Cultural relativism lengthens this idea by presuming that whether a moral action is accepted differ from society to society, and different society follow different rules, thus all cultures are treated equally. One can argue that human sacrifice in Aztec civilization was accepted by within own society, just as we have turkeys for Thanksgiving…