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n. (context philosophy English) Any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.
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Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures. Descriptive moral relativism holds only that some people do in fact disagree about what is moral; meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong; and normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when we disagree about the morality of it.
Not all descriptive relativists adopt meta-ethical relativism, and moreover, not all meta-ethical relativists adopt normative relativism. Richard Rorty, for example, argued that relativist philosophers believe "that the grounds for choosing between such opinions is less algorithmic than had been thought", but not that any belief is equally as valid as any other.
Moral relativism has been debated for thousands of years, from ancient Greece and India to the present day, in diverse fields including philosophy, science, and religion.
Usage examples of "moral relativism".
He's the most articulate rebuke to moral relativism on the field today.
He had no truck with the moral relativism of the neo- (cocktail-party) Freudians.
He had no truck with the moral relativism of the neo - (cocktail - party) Freudians.
It was sobering to argue moral relativism with a child, especially one who actually understood it better than most human adults.
Although he related well to the theme of moral relativism and personal autonomy in a value-neutral world, Junior grew apprehensive about each impending scene of violence, and closed his eyes against the prospect of blood.
All sins, even those committed by conservatives, were caused by the moral relativism the Democrats had imposed on America since the 1960s.
Anyone who grows up watching TV, never sees any religion or philosophy, is raised in an atmosphere of moral relativism, learns about civics from watching bimbo eruptions on network TV news, and attends a university where postmodernists vie to outdo each other in demolishing traditional notions of truth and quality, is going to come out into the world as one pretty feckless human being.