PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Female Genital Mutilation, Relativism, Cultural Relativism
10 Oct 2012
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There are no absolute truths when it comes to morality. Whatever a culture holds to be right is therefore right for them. One culture burning dead bodies, which is right for them. One culture eats their dead, which is right for them. Or moral objectivism remember subjective vs. objective. Universal values that are true for all people at all times. E. g. , kant is an absolutist stealing is always wrong, cheating is always wrong. Flourished in 19th century with anthropologists looked at diff cultures and realized how diff they were burgeoning of moral relativism realized what they thought might not be the best. Infanticide with inuits was fine women born 20 children but killed 10 at birth (mainly girls) Inuits abandoned elders for them to die: female circumcision (excision) girl from togo landed in nj airport and wanted asylum because she did not want the circumcision done that was common practice in togo.
