Cultural relativism philosophers

    • World Peace, Multiculturalism and Relativism

      Cultural relativism proceeds to moral relativism. It is because culture is one of the fundamental sources of morality. According to the view possessed by moral relativists, the moral code of one’s culture is the touchstone of moral truth and falsity when it …

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    • [DOC File]RELATIVISM - Stanford University

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      IV. Cultural relativism: Different cultures have different ethical standards and the standards by which the conduct of any individual should be measured are the mores of the community to which that individual belongs. 5. Cultural relativism. Cultural relativism, taken in this sense, deserves a separate discussion all to itself.

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    • [DOC File]PHI110 Study Guide .com

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      (a) Descriptive cultural relativism (not a metaethical position) Key claim: as a matter of empirical fact, different societies have different moral codes. What is regarded to be morally right and wrong is relative to culture. But note: You can be both a descriptive cultural relativist and a moral absolutist. (b) Meta-ethical cultural relativism

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    • [DOCX File]QUESTIONS PHILOSOPHERS ASK:

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      cultural relativism Flowing out of anthropological studies comes the idea that people think that what is right is what the culture says is right. It is defended by the anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Graham Sumner, and has been considered in various forms by philosophers Thomas Hobbes, William James, John Dewey and Melville Herskovits.

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    • [DOC File]Three Kinds of Relativism - Paul Boghossian

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      Philosophers who want to use faultless disagreement to motivate alethic relativism, however, face a formidable challenge, one that has been well brought out by Mark Richard. (Richard himself is an alethic relativist about certain domains, but he rejects the claim that it can be motivated by appeal to faultless disagreement.)

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    • [DOC File]CULTURAL RELATIVISM - Cleveland State University

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      Let’s begin our look at relativism with an examination of cultural relativism. Cultural relativism, as a philosophical doctrine, makes the claim that proper moral standards are relative to a culture. Taken a short step further, it informs us that all proper standards are derived from culture. We are not, individually, the keepers of our own standards; cultural relativism denies that sort …

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