PHILOS 2 Chapter pg. 21: B. WIlliams: "Interlude: Relativism", "God, Morality, and Prudence"
27 Jan 2019
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Williams: "interlude: relativism", "god, morality, and prudence" Relativism - the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute. Right for a given society in a functionalist sense: functionalism - mental states are identified by what they do rather than by what they are made of. It is wrong for people in one society to condemn/interfere with etc. the values of another society. If a society is regarded as a cultural unit identified in part through its values . Conclusion: can not be a part of the nature of morality that no society should ever interfere with another or, that individuals from one society confronted w/ practices of another ought to react w/ acceptance. No more worthy of obedience just harder to disobey: god"s existence does not supply motives for moral conduct, 2 arguments:
