Category: Relativism

The philosopher Allan Bloom once lamented: There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. Perhaps Bloom overstated his case, but as a university teacher myself, I think hes onto something. Do people who proclaim that truth is…

Harry Gensler, a professor of philosophy at the University of Scranton, compares and analyses theories of cultural relativism and subjectivism. Gensler analyses the problems that arise from cultural relativism and subjectivism. What a leader believes from a moral and ethical point of view is often influenced by what the leader has been told to grow…

There is a lot of controversies when it comes to ethics and what is morally right and wrong. So, over the years many people have tried to create theories in order to bring some clarity but I feel this has only bought on more complications and disputes. In this essay I will be discussing the…

This essay critically engages with and moves toward reconceptualizing the concept of cultural relativism. In ongoing public policy and academic debates, cultural relativism has become a nuanced idea generating diverse perspectives from various segments of the political continuum. Indeed, through its proliferation in international relations dialogue, it has become a concept that is difficult, if…

Albeit traditional relativism beforehand the mid1950s was a craft utilized by both Western anthropologists and original people clusters to challenge European hobbies for traditional power, as decolonization, the believed possesses been seized by third globe bourgeoisnationalist elites to undermine precolonial opportunities of people from disparate nonWestern people group. Employing the contextual scrutiny of homophobia in…

Ethical relativism highlights the idea that every situation may not have the same solution for all people. In Ethics Theory and Contemporary Issues, the authors explain Relative means that our judgments about ethics are relative to (or dependent on) something else. In other words, ones ethics are dependent on the persons culture, religion, beliefs, and…

Introduction In the realm of ethics, two prominent perspectives emerge: utilitarianism and moral relativism. Utilitarianism, founded on the principle of maximizing overall happiness, provides an objective framework for ethical decision-making. In contrast, moral relativism asserts that morality is context-dependent, varying among individuals and cultures. This essay aims to compare and contrast these two perspectives to…

Last week one of my friends was preparing to leave for an important date, and before she left the house, she asked my opinion concerning her dress. I told her that the dress was horrible before clarifying that was my personal opinion, and it does not matter in the end. She was mortified by my…

Last week I met some friends, and in our conversation, the issue of gambling came up, and five individuals in a group of seven argued that this practice is immoral. I could not understand why such an issue could be controversial, but I quickly realized that all those against gambling were international students from China,…

Moral relativism is a philosophical position according to which moral or ethical provisions do not, in fact, reflect universal moral truths. However, this kind of relativism does not deny the truth  it merely affirms its relativity. The adepts of moral relativism state that humans are not omniscient, and history is contains examples of people…