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  1. Mar 1, 2008 · Instead, it has focused on the distinction between ethical universalism and ethical relativism – i.e., whether individuals treat their ethical beliefs as applying to all people, and all cultures (Nichols & Folds-Bennett, 2003).

    • Geoffrey P. Goodwin, John M. Darley
    • 2008
  2. Jan 9, 2012 · Read this article. Recent scholarship (Goodwin & Darley, 2008) on the meta-ethical debate between objectivism and relativism has found people to be mixed: they are objectivists about some issues, but relativists about others. The studies discussed here sought to explore this further.

    • Jennifer C. Wright, Piper T. Grandjean, Cullen B. McWhite
    • 2013
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  4. 1 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

  5. Feb 19, 2004 · The first point is a form of metaethical relativism: It says one morality may be true for one society and a conflicting morality may be true for another society. Hence, there is no one objectively correct morality for all societies. The second point, however, is a concession to moral objectivism.

  6. Sep 11, 2015 · Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them.

  7. Discusses three forms of moral relativismnormative moral relativism, moral judgement relativism, and metaethical 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.

  8. Jan 23, 2007 · Metaethics. First published Tue Jan 23, 2007; substantive revision Tue Jan 24, 2023. Metaethics is the attempt to understand the metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological, presuppositions and commitments of moral thought, talk, and practice.