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Metaethics. Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is. Just as two people may disagree about the ethics of, for example ...
Normative ethics and applied ethics are covered in separate chapters. Each field is distinguished by a different level of inquiry and analysis. Metaethics focuses on moral reasoning and foundational questions that explore the assumptions related to moral beliefs and practice.
saying so, neither has indulged in meta-ethics; both have stayed within the confines of normative ethics, and indicated the force, scope, or weight (the exceptionless or exception-possible character) of the rule. Whether relativism is true, however, is a question about normative ethics, not a question within normative ethics. It’s a ques-
Abstract. 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. Keywords: meta‐ethical relativism, moral judgement ...
Often the subject of heated debate, moral relativism is a cluster of doctrines concerning diversity of moral judgment across time, societies and individuals. Descriptive relativism is the doctrine that extensive diversity exists and that it concerns values and principles central to moralities. Meta-ethical relativism is the doctrine that there ...
Moral relativism is a meta-ethical theory because it seeks to understand whether morality is the same in different cultures. Proponents of moral relativism do not observe universal rules governing moral conduct; rather, moral rules are contingent on at least one of: Personality. Culture. Situations.
Cultural relativism is the claim that moral rules are created by one’s culture and cultures differ in their interpretation of moral rightness or wrongness. Subjectivism is the more problematic of the two because it asserts that if one wants to do something then one can simply make a new moral rule.
