Ethics - Moral Relativism

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Philosophy & Ethics Mind Map on Ethics - Moral Relativism, created by alicegepp on 29/03/2014.
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Ethics - Moral Relativism
  1. Moral Relativism - there are no universally valid moral principles and so there is no one true morality
    1. Subjectivism - each person's values are relative to that person and so cannot be judged objectively
      1. Plato - used his Theory of the Forms to explain his beliefs of objective and universal moral truths
        1. Aristotle - we can be virtuous by looking at virtuous people and discovering how we can better develop our character
          1. Cultural Relativism - what is right or wrong is dependant on the culture (diversity thesis)
            1. e.g Muslim punishment (cutting of a man's hand for theft)
              1. e.g arranged marriages
              2. Descriptive Relativism - different cultures and societies have different ethical systems and so morality is relative
                1. Reasons for Relativism - the decline of religious authority, understanding of different cultures, unacceptable effects of interfering with other cultures
                  1. Weaknesses of Relativism - cannot criticise other cultures (e.g The Holocaust), just because cultures vary does not mean that there is no absolute good (do not kill etc), does not allow societies to progress
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