Relativism

1. Ethnocentrism is the presumption that an individual’s culture based on their customs and values is better than that of another. For this reason, it may have some negative effects on the speaker’s effectiveness. The audience, based on their cultural views may be offended if little value is placed on what they consider to be the norm or custom. Therefore, how they identify with the speaker’s message is paramount. For instance, some cultures may be open to inexactness whereas in other cultures…

Subjective relativism is the moral perspective implying that if an individual approves of an action, it is then directed to be moral. For example, an individual can say “X is right,” and someone else can assert that “X is wrong”. When applying subjective relativism to the situation, it justifies that action X is both right and wrong. Suggesting that it can be right for a particular person but wrong for another. Thus, when deciphering whether something is moral or not, it is correlated to…

term “relativism”. As defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, relativism is “the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them.” This is a fancy way of saying “Truth is relative”. 
I believe I need to justify why I have chosen a philosophical term for a paper on societal problems. Relativism…

INTRODUCTION In this document, I will be discussing ethical subjectivism and cultural relativism. In doing so, the first thing that I will discuss is the theocratical claims that both theories are based on. Then after discussing that, the next thing that I will do is to explain the relationship between both theories. Then lastly, I will outline some of the implications of these ethical positions on classroom practices. According to Vaughn (2015), ethical subjectivism or moral subjectivism is a…

it comes to human rights, the issue of cultural relativism is widely discussed. Majority of the human rights literature encompasses the western and non-western argument on the right to deny service. As a result of these debates, comes the discussion of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism, at first glance, seems like quite a reasonable argument towards safeguarding different cultural groups. However when we begin to analyze the cultural relativism theory, we come to find that it is not quite…

The categorical imperative, to Immanuel Kant, is an overarching principle of acting towards others the way you would like for them to treat everybody else; a slight furtherance of the ‘Golden Rule’(Where your actions are based upon the way you would like them to treat you). The categorical imperative creates a moral basis based upon one’s understanding of their own individuality coupled with an empathetic understanding of those around them, based upon their precepts that they’ve come to…

In a world comprised of people who hardly seem different from anyone else, do you believe that people would so readily relinquish their sense of self? The dictionary definition of conformity is the “ compliance with standards, rules or laws.” On the other hand, individuality is defined as “ the quality or character of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind, especially when strongly marked.” Bradbury reveals the theme that conformity suppresses…

Dumping defines as “the practice of exporting to other countries products that have been banned or declared hazardous in the United States.” (Barry, V. 2014) One of the examples is the E-waste dumping in Africa. According to an article on PC World, “European Commission and U.N. studies show that West Africa is becoming a disposal site for e-waste from various parts of the world.” (Malakata, 2015) It also indicates that “The careless disposal of electronic equipment can cause significant health…

The notion of “separateness of persons” has posed several convincing objections to utilitarianism. These have been voiced by Rawls, Nozick and Nagel all of which have disregarded the moral force that drives utilitarianism, highlighting the theories lack of recognition of individuality and separate utility. To me, the “separateness of persons” not only is successful in silencing utilitarianism, it also is crucial to our very concept of morality. I argue this through presenting defeats to…

Mackie vs. Ethical Objectivism Ethical Objectivism claims that some moral standards are true and some are false and that does not depend in anyway on what people want or believe. This claim is argued by J.L. Mackie, his thesis is that there are no objective values or moral fact. He argues ethical objectivism with two arguments which are the argument of relativity and the argument of queerness. I will argue that ethical objectivism’s argument that there are some moral standards that are…