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5 days ago · From ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle to later notable philosophers such as René Descartes and Immanuel Kant, philosophy's great thinkers have approached sensitive ethical and existential issues from a variety of different angles.
5 days ago · Ethical individualism posits that morality is subjective, shaped by individual beliefs and experiences, while cultural relativism argues that moral truths are culturally contingent. Both perspectives acknowledge moral diversity but differ in their emphasis on individual versus collective influences on morality.
5 days ago · Ethical Relativism suggests that moral principles are culturally contingent, while Ethical Objectivism asserts the existence of universal moral truths. The essay navigates the complexities of these viewpoints, highlighting the tension between cultural diversity and moral universality.
2 days ago · Importantly, the argument they are making is not one of relativism, a kind of ‘anything goes’. Nor are these scholars denying the importance of choice, judgment and critical assessment. What they are arguing for is the need to rethink our forms of judgement about evidence in ways that do not straightforwardly disqualify nor valorise ...
3 days ago · Relativism is the belief that there's no absolute truth, only the truths that a particular individual or culture happen to believe. If you believe in relativism, then you think different people can have different views about what's moral and immoral.
5 days ago · We introduce this Special Issue (SI) and provide a comprehensive thematic literature review considering three broad categories or aspects of ethical consumerism research, (1) contexts of ethical consumption, (2) forms of ethical consumerism, and (3) approaches to explaining ethical consumer behavior.
1 day ago · In the Science of ethology (the study of animal behaviour), and more generally in the study of social evolution, altruism refers to behavior by an individual that increases the fitness of another individual while decreasing the fitness of the actor. [3] .
