1. What Is Ethical Relativism?
What Is Ethical Relativism?
Ethical relativism is the view that there is no objective right and wrong. In other words:
? There are only different views of what is right and wrong
? There are universally accepted ethical standards
In this sense, according to an ethical relativist, ethics and morality are _______ science insofar as science seems to have universal validity
and produces consensus (agreement of opinion) over time.
Because ethical relativists hold that morality consists of _______ on what is right or wrong, they claim that morality is:
? An objective and universal feature of human reality and experience
? Simply a function of the different moral beliefs that people have
The opposite viewpoint, that there are universally applicable rights and wrongs, is called _______, or objectivism.