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Cultural and Ethical Relativism
1999Abstract A long-standing debate surrounds the question whether ethics are relative to time and place. One side argues that there is no obvious source of a universal morality and that ethical rightness and wrongness are products of their cultural and historical setting. Opponents claim that even if a universal set of ethical norms has not
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Moral Conflicts and Ethical Relativism
Ethics, 1990Many theories in the history of ethics have held that there cannot be genuinely irresolvable moral dilemmas, that is, an agent cannot be bound by two moral requirements, neither of which overrides the other in a morally relevant way. The major goal of a moral theory is to demonstrate how to resolve apparent conflicts. Recently, a number of philosophers
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Relativism and Absolutism in Ethics
Ethics, 1944thesis of this paper is that most of the confusion and disputation I on the problem of relativism and absolutism in ethics is due to a failure to make a proper distinction between the right and the good. If this distinction is properly maintained, it will, I believe, be found that there is a general consensus of opinion on the major issues among nearly
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Ethical Relativisms and Ethical Relativism
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Cultural and Ethical Relativism
Journal of Teaching in International Business, 1991Susan P. Ravenscroft, George S. Clark
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Taking Care of Ethical relativism
2001The existence of conflicting behavioral codes creates a serious prima facie difficulty for the legitimacy of moral judgments. Suppose that I claim, “x is right,” for some behavior x sanctioned by my code, and suppose that a different code proclaims instead“xis wrong”; what justification could I possibly offer for my claim?
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