PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Snapple, Cultural Relativism, Social Code
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How different cultures have different moral codes: different cultures have different moral codes. To be hospitable, the husband would share his wife/wives with guests for the night. Women could break out of this arrangement by leaving her husband and getting married to someone else: this scenario is not like the typical marriage in other parts of the world, the eskimos also practiced infanticide. Cultural relativism: there is no universal truth in ethics; there are just various cultural codes; no code is superior to another. There are many parts to this theory; some are correct while others are mistaken. We should tolerate the practices of other cultures. The cultural differences argument: cultural relativism is a theory of the nature of morality. It has its flaws, however when subjecting it to rational analysis: cultural relativists use the strategy that is to argue from facts about the differences between cultural outlooks, then conclude the status of morality.
