Ethical relativism is the thesis that ethical principles or judgments are relative to the individual or culture. When stated so vaguely relativism is embraced by numerous lay persons and a sizeable contingent of philosophers. Other philosophers, however, find the thesis patently false, even wonder ...
The Truth in Ethical Relativism Hugh LaFollette Ethical relativism is the thesis that ethical principles or judgments are relative to the individual or culture. When stated so vaguely relativism is embraced by numerous lay persons and a sizeable contingent of philosophers. Other philosophers, however,...
Not only is it impossible to understand Continental Philosophy without understanding Husserl, but his philosophy also stands on its own: it has a depth and comprehensiveness that rivals any of the great philosophies throughout history. Further, in this age of skepticism, relativism, and irrational...
Benedict next takes up the issue of dialogue. It is a confused area. The noble Platonic notion has become—if not useless in a world of relativism in which no truth can be found—at least a justification for endless discussions that decide very little. Benedict sees three areas of dialogue...
Answer to: Assuming that you were in Socrates' situation, would you have chosen to die for your beliefs or would you have elected a safer way of...
Public pressure is essential for providing multinational enterprises (MNEs) with motivation to follow the standards of human rights conduct set in soft-law
Briefly, the AAA critiqued what they saw as an ethnocentric position (i.e., the belief in the superiority of one’s own culture or ethnic group) endorsed by the UN, instead proposing to centre cultural diversity through the concept of cultural relativism: roughly, the belief that certain ...
(2) Contextualism: knowledge about the temporal and situational character of problems and the numerous conditions in which life is embedded; (3) Value relativism: knowledge of the diversity of values and life goals and the need to look at other people within their value system without losing ...
and ontological and epistemic relativism (Feyerabend,1975;1978;1987). Other arguments consist of more substantive epistemological claims. For example, Caniglia et al. (2021), in their argument for a “new epistemology of science”, begin by pointing out that science is a “historically situated an...
This is not, as some IT accounts suggest, tantamount to moral relativism; it is grounded in liberal democratic values that recognize both the importance and limits of enshrining our own judgments about good medicine in law and public policy. In response to the CR question, we ought to be ...