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First, it holds that descriptive, prescriptive, or meta-ethical aspects of prescriptive terms such as ‘right,’ ‘wrong,’ ‘ought,’ etc., (e.g., their use, legitimacy, or meaning) are relative to a moral view.
Mar 1, 2008 · In this paper, we develop a method that distinguishes ethical objectivists (i.e., individuals who take their ethical beliefs to express true facts about the world) from ethical subjectivists (i.e., individuals who take their ethical beliefs to be mind-dependent, and to express nothing more than facts about human psychology).
- Geoffrey P. Goodwin, John M. Darley
- 2008
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May 31, 2011 · This is different for meta-ethical relativism: meta-ethical relativism is most often presented or defended in its extreme form, namely that all moral statements are relatively right or wrong if meta-ethical relativism is correct.
- Katinka J. P. Quintelier, Katinka J. P. Quintelier, Daniel M. T. Fessler
- 2012
More recently, Sarkissian et al. (2011) have argued that relativist beliefs are more prevalent than suggested by Goodwin and colleagues, but that these beliefs are only observed when participants are comparing judgments made by agents who dif er from each other in important ways.
In three experiments, we set out a methodology for assessing the per-ceived objectivity of ethical beliefs, and use it to document several novel findings. Experiment 1 showed that individuals tend to regard ethical statements as clearly more objec-tive than social conventions and tastes, and almost as objective as scientific facts.
Discusses three forms of moral relativism—normative moral relativism, moral judgement relativism, and meta‐ethical relativism. After discussing objections to each view, it is shown that the objections can all be met and that all three versions of moral relativism are correct.
Meta-Ethical Moral Relativism: There are no objective moral facts or properties, but. moral facts and properties do exist in such a way as to depend on certain contextual. parameters related to the individuals or groups forming moral judgments. Clearly much further work would be needed to flesh out this rough account (for helpful.
