01:185:253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Moral Skepticism, Moral Realism, Cultural Relativism
13 Apr 2018
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Debate between moral realism, cultural relativism, moral skepticism. Research in anthropology, psychology, and other branches of cognitive science can help us decide which is correct. In ethics, as in grammar, we can quickly and easily make a huge number of judgements about cases we have never heard before. Nativism the traditional view that the rules are innate and shared by all humans. The evolutionary psychology view- jukebox nativism that there is a limited set of. Where do the rules (moral grammar) come from? i. the view that mikhail calls enlightenment rationalism innate options, and the environment causes one of them to be active. Cultural learning- people"s general moral principles and rules are acquired from their culture (in the same way that they inherit religious beliefs, food preferences and cultural practices) Traditional nativism and moral realism are a congenial pair adequate justification for treating them as correct: the cultural learning view is more congenial to relativism or skepticism.
