PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Moral Relativism, Cultural Relativism, Female Genital Mutilation
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Our values are absorbed from society around us: family & friends, television, radio, books, church. Ethics: branch of philosophy, asks what people ought to do or what people ought to believe about moral. The social sciences ask what people actually do or actually believe. Ethics asks what people ought to do or ought to believe about right and wrong. Ethical dogmatism: the view that single true set of moral standards are the ones that we hold, like absolutism, believes there is only one correct way. But differs because the dogmatist believes that their way is the right one: all moral dogmatists are moral absolutists, but not all moral absolutists are moral dogmatists. Descriptive relativism holds that what people believe is morally right and wrong differs from one society to another. Moral relativism holds that what actually is morally right differs from one society to another.
