HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Relativism, James Rachels, Triage
19 Sep 2018
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Even if two groups may be close geographically: depending on where you are born is highly influential in your culture where we are born and grow up and religion. Similar in the way that our cuisine varies. We should adopt an attitude of tolerance toward the practices of other cultures. Just get married: doesn"t work in our society as well as many others, gay marriage and regular marriage aren"t simply the same. If you live in a pluralistic society some things are more wrong than others: a+ for the whole class straight. Moral relativism preferences: there are not values, nothing really matters, nothing matters morally moral apathy. This is critical to advancement of our technologies and way of life. Important to take the claim forward more than just the definition. Values in common: cultures may share several values in common.
