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Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different peoples and cultures. An advocate of such ideas is often referred to as a relativist.
- Metaethics: Introduction. The prefix “meta” is derived from the Greek for “beyond”. Metaethics is therefore a form of study that is beyond the topics considered in normative or applied ethics.
- The Value of Metaethics. A former colleague once suggested that Metaethics was entirely and frustratingly pointless — academia for academia’s sake, she thought.
- Cognitivism versus Non-Cognitivism. Key to the successful study of Metaethics is understanding the various key terminological distinctions that make up the “metaethical map”.
- Realism versus Anti-Realism. The second key fork in the road that separates metaethical theories is the choice between Moral Realism and Moral Anti-Realism (as with Cognitivism, the “Moral” prefix is assumed from hereon).
Moral judgement relativism holds that moral judgements make implicit reference to the speaker or to some other person or to some group or to one or another set of moral standards, etc. Meta‐ethical relativism says that conflicting moral judgements about a particular case can both be right. 2.1 Normative Moral Relativism
Feb 19, 2004 · Moral relativism is an important topic in metaethics. It is also widely discussed outside philosophy (for example, by political and religious leaders), and it is controversial among philosophers and nonphilosophers alike. This is perhaps not surprising in view of recent evidence that people’s intuitions about moral relativism vary widely.
Nov 30, 2021 · Research Article. Moral realism, disagreement, and conceptual ethics. Michael Klenk. Received 07 Jun 2021, Accepted 25 Aug 2021, Published online: 30 Nov 2021. Cite this article. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.1995483. In this article. Full Article. Figures & data. References. Citations. Metrics. Licensing. Reprints & Permissions.
Jan 9, 2012 · The philosophical domain of meta-ethical theory has long been dominated by two major positions: objectivism and relativism. Roughly speaking, objectivism holds that the moral domain, like the scien...
Moral nihilism and moral relativism are metaethical theories, theories of the nature of morality. Nihilism is the view that there are no moral facts. It says that nothing is right or wrong, or morally good or bad. Nihilists believe that moral language is infected by a massive false presupposition, much as atheists understand religious talk.
