PHI 192 Chapter Notes -Scientific Method, Gensler, Cultural Relativism
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So long as society can make moral mistakes, then its approval is not enough to show that something is morally good: 2) relativism is a very poor basis for defending tolerance. Some societies favor intolerance, therefore intolerance is a good thing in those societies: 3) relativism is a counsel of conformity. One must be uncritical of the norms, because they are always correct: 4) relativism offers us poor advice about what to do for members of subcultures situated in large groups. Therefore such and such is good: we can consistently disagree with the values of our society. We can consistently affirm that something is socially approved yet deny that it is good : cr is intolerant of minority views which are always defined as wrong. Therefore a moral code could be the product of culture and still express objective truths: 2) the mere fact of disagreement doesn"t show that there is not truth in the matter.