PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Louis Pojman, Moral Relativism, Cultural Relativism
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Dependency hypothesis: people act in right or wrong depending on the nature of. Morality does not occur in a vacuum, but what is considered morally right or wrong. All moral principles derive their validity from cultural acceptance. What is considered morally right and wrong varies from society to society, so that there. He is a personal god that can be felt by the individual. E(cid:448)eryo(cid:374)e"s i(cid:374)terpretatio(cid:374)s of god is (cid:448)alid a(cid:374)d all the religio(cid:374)s are true more or less. People in the west have rejected ethnocentrism, we all seem to have this conscious-raising need but this leads to a lack of moral objectivism. Moral objectivism: the view that there are universal moral principles. An analysis of moral relativism are no moral principles accepted by all societies society from which they emanate must be seen in a context. But in this concept then both gandhi and. Notions of moral good and bad, right or wrong, cease to have interpersonal evaluative meaning.
