PHL 400 Lecture Notes - James Rachels, Cultural Relativism, General Idea

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 400
• Professor: Mark Clamen

Document Summary

Broader, moral outlook (fact of cultural difference means there are no distinct human rights?) Jack donnelly, the relative universality of human rights . [our norms and values are not absolute they can change with time; when we discuss different cultures, all the necessary features that make up any culture in any place and time are considered values] [we know people do not act all the same, but we know that when they act inappropriately, the society calls them out on it -> such as laws; so they are punished] [social norms play a pseudo-legal role in our behaviour] Mor s: [an action that may not be universally held ask why is it?] Example: callatians eat their honoured dead because the thought of the body wasting is offensive to them, the greeks are disgusted by that because they cremate them =