Relativism

Moral relativism isn’t new. It’s what motivated the original sin in the Garden of Eden and it’s still the motivation behind any sin. Due to our sin nature, we want to do what we want when we want without repercussion. We are filled with an overwhelming sense of self that causes us to attempt justification for decisions of morality and sin. As with relativism, we want to be our own god, to make our own decisions without moral constraints…

states that this is all bad and that relativism is wrong because we are taught better. I selected this article because it shows almost perfectly a common problem with many arguments against relativism. People tend to point out things that we see as bad, such as corruption in this case, and say that relativism is wrong because we have some sort of sense of what is good and what is bad. This almost ignores the opposing argument. Those who believe in moral relativism don’t think that everything…

101. Why THE THIRD TESTAMENT Equals to PEACE & LOVE? • The Spiritual Science clearly indicates and through incontestable Cosmic Analyses elaborates that “the whole religious instinct in Human Beings is a product of an organic function, which gives rise to a cry for protection, a cry for lasting peace, for culture and happiness, a cry for a higher form of Existence…” Undoubtedly, the religious instinct shows itself in multifold of ways. However, neither through religious worships nor through…

Kissindja’s well-founded fear of persecution by a social group, not on the sole basis of female genital mutilation. He wouldn’t agree on adding a provision in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that bans female genital mutilation due to cultural relativism. In Do They Hear You When We Cry we learn that Kissindja arrived in the United States at the age of 17. After her father’s death, Kissindja’s mother would be kicked out of her home by her aunt and uncle. Her aunt would prevent…

96. What is Pilate’s or the modern man behavior? • The current period of development is like a final station for dark karma on the ‘Road Towards The Light’. All people must finish with experiencing misfortune, which can happen only IF & WHEN they stop creating a dark way of being. For this reason, there is a colossal ‘quantity’ of both primitiveness and intellectuality manifested in these zones. Masses of opposites meet and collide. Mental explosions occur everywhere and all the time, between…

their best interest to give back to the countries that allow them to prosper. Just by treating their employees as human beings, they can enhance the welfare of the communities they are in. An important issue in ethics is the concept of ethical relativism, the theory that describes that morality is relative to the norms of one 's culture,…

Stepheny Saavedra Anthropology 340 Dec. 1, 2016 “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” is one of the many cases that exemplify the barriers and obstacles people from distinct cultures encounter due to their ethnocentrism and lack of cultural relativism. After escaping to the U.S., a place completely different from what they called home, the Lees had to adapt and place their trust on strangers (to save their daughter) who viewed a condition with spiritual origin to the Hmong as a…

One of the most distinctive qualities of Machiavelli’s essay The Prince is its lack of interest in personal morality. Machiavelli’s primary interest is in the end justifying the means and how the ambition for power can be achieved and maintained, thus leaving little room for questions of morality. The distinctive quality of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is the play’s focus on the complex moral question of what would drive a good man to commit an evil act, believing he was doing it not for his own…

Cultural Relativism is an essay written by Harry Gensler which main purpose is to provide a deeper understanding of such teaching as cultural relativism. In accordance with an essay social approval is the main criteria of morality. In this way, those acts that were approved by society can be considered as good. However, those that were not accepted in term of certain society can be considered as bad. Author of an essay argues that relativism is that deeply problematic. Gensler distinguishes…

paragraphs, I will expose the problems with cultural relativism; namely, through the use of the law of non-contradiction. Cultural relativism is an ethical theory that states “correct moral standards are relative to cultures or societies …” (Shafer-Landau 293). For example, the Inuit people believed that infanticide was morally acceptable. In contrast, most of the world believes that infanticide is highly immoral and never acceptable. Cultural relativism acts as a sort of scapegoat and allows…