Individual Moral Relativism Essay
When I think about ethical relativism culture come to mind. I also think about what is right or wrong. When you think about what are moral you think about lessons to be learned or an experience. There are several types of moral relativism and different meanings; moral relativism is basically what the individual decides what is right or wrong for them. The two that I will discuss is individual moral relativism and cultural moral relativism. These to me are two very important morals that each personal have traits of. Individual moral relativism is also called subjective relativism or simply subjectivism. This is just the view of what is ethically right is relative to each person. To me this relatives to whatever a person believe that is correct, but this wouldn’t be correct because I may feel that if I murder someone that is right, but when it
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This is basically whatever your culture believes then that is what you believe in and this right. For example it comes back to religion in my culture we believe that Jesus is God’s son, but in other cultures they don’t believe that Jesus was God’s son one culture believe that Jesus was just a prophet. So you see religion can be either cultural or individual relativism. The weakness of this is that one culture may feel that if you don’t believe in what I believe in then we have the right to kill you because you don’t believe in what we believe in. Some cultures believe that it is right for you to have more than one wife or husband; others believe that you should have only one wife or husband. Cultural Relativism may help us to understand why cultures have accepted cannibalism, slavery, sexism, racism, genital mutilation, having no human rights, etc., but it does not give a good argument as to why these actions are ever moral, that’s one of the strengths. There could be a lot of conflict also in cultural and individual
This is basically whatever your culture believes then that is what you believe in and this right. For example it comes back to religion in my culture we believe that Jesus is God’s son, but in other cultures they don’t believe that Jesus was God’s son one culture believe that Jesus was just a prophet. So you see religion can be either cultural or individual relativism. The weakness of this is that one culture may feel that if you don’t believe in what I believe in then we have the right to kill you because you don’t believe in what we believe in. Some cultures believe that it is right for you to have more than one wife or husband; others believe that you should have only one wife or husband. Cultural Relativism may help us to understand why cultures have accepted cannibalism, slavery, sexism, racism, genital mutilation, having no human rights, etc., but it does not give a good argument as to why these actions are ever moral, that’s one of the strengths. There could be a lot of conflict also in cultural and individual