PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Relativism, Cultural Relativism, Logical Form
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Phlb07 monday september 27th, 2010 lecture 4. Some intuitions: society: different cultures have differences. If you think there are no right and wrongs in cultural choices/differences, you have moved to a view of ethics: two senses of norm. Constraints on how we should or shouldn"t act; there will be consequences if you do different. Benedict collapses these two senses: cultural vs ethical. Benedict moves from descriptive cultural to ethical relativism: the view: When what is normal conties to think is normal this is gppd . Moral goods are thus what a culture deems normal. Morally good=sociall approved: cultural relativism relative to a culture c an action a is morally good is an only a is socially approved in c, abnormality in and across cultures. Not all cultures are absolute; what is considered (ab)normal is determined by cultures only: a moral theory. Morally good = habitual relative to a culture. Morally good = socially approved by a culture.
