This is Part 2 of a series on moral relativism. The previous article can be found here. Lack of virtue. Moral relativism is based on individual preferences. Exactly who would do the nominating who for ...

Cultural Relativism—An anthropological term that can best be defined as follows: An individual's actions, behaviors and beliefs can be understood only in terms of the culture from which he or she ...

Cultural relativism, the realization that diverse cultures have different, incommensurable aesthetic standards, anticipated by Montaigne and Machiavelli, was the discovery of the Neapolitan ...

French actor Bridget Bardot passed away a few days ago. I do not know him well. It seems I am not the only one, as such content was mentioned in the obituary articles of media outlets. I first learned ...

In the early 1970s, renowned anthropologist Clifford Geertz published his most influential book, The Interpretation of Cultures. The book was widely read throughout the social sciences and humanities, ...

A central argument of this article is that Isaiah Berlin's notion of cultural pluralism can be described as relativistic, and that he should not have repudiated the relativism, but simply defended it ...

"Hey, don't judge." We hear those words a lot. But it takes real commitment to say them while staring at 130 thousand murder victims. Imagine walking into the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan in the ...

Broadly speaking, ethical relativism contends that ethical rules are drawn from human experience and that what is right or wrong is dependent upon particular times and places. There are cultural ...

Determining the most ethical choices can be extremely difficult. Numerous formally identified approaches to decision-making are available. A universal approach to ethics is based on the concept of ...