Relativism

It is not appropriate or in agreement with the constitution to give personal opinions to your subordinates when they are seeking advice in a professional setting. Now, how the heck am I supposed to refrain from voicing my opinion, you ask? Moral Relativism is defined in the Ethics and the Military Profession-The Moral Foundations of Leadership book as the idea that the truth of a moral judgment of principle is dependent upon and relative to its…

Benedict and Midgley The thesis of Benedict’s is that moral relativism is the correct view of the morality. Benedict’s claim that every culture is different from one another. Morality differs from every culture, that’s why what is moral to one culture can be immoral to another. Which culture is right is which one is wrong? it is part of the culture points of view, because if every culture has different standards or right and wrong then we cannot say which one is the one with the total truth.…

PHI2600 Ethics Research Project Paper Abbie Guile Moral Relativism, Emrys Westacott Morals have many components that play into what is considered right or wrong, and this is where moral relativism comes in. Moral relativism is the standpoint of where the morals are coming from. This gives us more of an explanation to where individual’s morals originate from and help us understand them. An example of this could be someone’s culture, because his or her standpoint is different from someone that…

culturally derived concepts shape the moral conclusions (for example values) that people reach thus leading to apparent diversity. In order to challenge this apparent diversity one can explore two contrasting principles Cultural relativism and Soft Universalism. Cultural relativism states that there is a diversity of ethical codes and that there are no universal moral principles. The first example I will be using to prove this is taken from Darius’ (the king of ancient Persia) findings. He…

government officials have been promoting or criticizing the claim that human rights, as defined in the U.N declaration of human rights, are universally valid. Considering this loggerhead this paper attempts to analyze the conflict between the cultural relativism and universal human rights from the point of view of human security in Asia. This paper will consider claims about ` Asian Values` made in connection to human rights and economic development rights to find Asian way of encouraging human…

the authorities. Another view of morality is the ethical relativism view. This view states that moral principles are not generalized, but instead are relative to what a person or a culture believe in. Ethical relativism is them broken down even further into subjective relativism and cultural relativism. Subjective relativism being the view that an action is morally right if the person doing the action believes it is and cultural relativism being that view that an action is right if that is the…

CULTURE I grew up in eastern part of Nigeria, and my first knowledge of culture as a way of life was being passed to me through the oral tradition as I moved along with parents and relatives. I can remember my interpretation of culture had to do with language, food, dressing and mode of reference. In fact, people’s dress code or language mode easily exposed from which part of location they were from and this made me to associate culture with location and race. I remembered in an occasion my dad…

Morality is defined as principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior by the Oxford Dictionary. How do we decide if something is wrong or right? It is obvious morality differs from culture to culture, that being said which culture contains the right moral code? The death penalty is a topic that has debated over for decades, and currently legal in thirty-one out of fifty states in the United States. When the question of morality comes into play, the…

With today’s society become more and more opinionated on one’s own personal values and morals, it has now caused people to become very ethnocentric. Also, with many things persuading us to stand up and support our personal opinions, we as humans tend to become narrow minded and not welcome anyone else’s views without being judgemental right away. I think I can say that everyone has gone through this at least one time in their lifespan. Sometime in their life where they automatically closed off…

Morality is the distinction between what is right and wrong. Some people believe that morality can be enforced with stringent laws, while other people do not. There are different stories to both sides of this argument. Morality is different from person to person. Everyone has a different set of morals that are unique and different from others. Morality can’t be enforced by law. It should be up to the individual what is right and wrong. People will do what they want to do, no matter if their…