Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Relativism and Absolutism
- Moral Absolutism
- Certain rules that everybody knows which are wrong or right
- There are universally valid moral principles
- Circumstances are NOT taken into account
- e.g Natural Law
- Moral Relativism
- There are no universally valid moral principles
- All principles and values are relative to a particular culture or age
- There isn't one true morality
- Circumstances are taken into account
- e.g. Secondary Precepts
- 'One man's terrorist is another nman's freedom fighter'
- Cultural Relativism
- Diversity Thesis
- because of the diversity across and within cultures there
can be no one true morality
- Examples -
- Polygamy and monogamy
- Death penalty