PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Skepticism, Cultural Relativism, Relativism
8 Apr 2015
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We can divide this into subjectivism and conventionalism. For these views, moral principles are relative to one"s culture or individual choice. (subjectivism believes in individual choice, morality is a personal decision). So if you sat down and thought of principles you think you need to act on or you think are correct, then that would be correct. On a conventionalist view, morality isn"t just a personal decision, but it"s relative to one"s culture / society. As a society if we get together and reflect on moral principles, and agreed/endorsed these, that"s all it takes to justify moral principles. Morality here is relative to the culture/society that a person belongs to. We can divide this into weak objectivists and strong objectivists. Strong objectivist/absolutist - think that all moral principles are valid in all times/places, or at least some very important ones hold no matter what.
