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Meta-ethical. Meta-ethical moral relativists believe not only that people disagree about moral issues, but that terms such as "good", "bad", "right" and "wrong" do not stand subject to universal truth conditions at all; rather, they are relative to the traditions, convictions, or practices of an individual or a group of people.
Feb 19, 2004 · 1. Historical Background. 2. Forms and Arguments. 3. Experimental Philosophy. 4. Descriptive Moral Relativism. 5. Are Moral Disagreements Rationally Resolvable? 6. Metaethical Moral Relativism. 7. Mixed Positions: A Rapprochement between Relativists and Objectivists? 8. Relativism and Tolerance. Bibliography. Academic Tools.
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Moral or ethical relativism (compare "cultural relativism"): This is the view that for a thing to be morally right is for it to be approved of by society; this leads to the conclusion that different things are right for people in different societies and different periods in history. This view is usually based on a mistaken inference that moves ...
Ethical relativism, the doctrine that there are no absolute truths in ethics and that what is morally right or wrong varies from person to person or from society to society. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)
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. As such, it counts within its domain a broad range of questions and puzzles, including ...
Nov 6, 2015 · Meta-ethics is a major field of enquiry in philosophy. The ‘meta’ in ‘meta-ethics’ signifies ‘above’. Meta-ethics is the attempt to answer questions about ethics. Philosophers working in this area are not so much concerned with what people or acts in particular are ethical. These questions are the domain of an allied field of ...
