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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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Mar 1, 2008 · Experiment 1 showed that individuals tend to regard ethical statements as clearly more objective than social conventions and tastes, and almost as objective as scientific facts. Yet, there was considerable variation in objectivism, both across different ethical statements, and across individuals. The extent to which individuals treat ethical ...
- Geoffrey P. Goodwin, John M. Darley
- 2008
Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are relative to the perspective of an observer or the context in which they are assessed. [1] There are many different forms of relativism, with a great deal of variation in scope and differing ...
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
Ethical subjectivism (also known as moral subjectivism and moral non-objectivism) [1] is the meta-ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences express propositions. Some such propositions are true. The truth or falsity of such propositions is ineliminably dependent on the (actual or hypothetical) attitudes of people. [2] [3]
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.
