PHL-200 Lecture 14: PHL 200 Lecture 14: Philosophy Notes: CULTURAL ETHICAL RELATIVE
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Cultural ethical relative: not only do di erent cultures di er their ethical beliefs, but the ethical beliefs of a culture merely express the irrational, unjusti able customs ( tastes ) of a culture. Beliefs about : what"s good/bad, what"s right/wrong, what"s just/unjust. > they cannot both be true at once: a cultures" ethical beliefs cannot be mistaken. A culture"s ethical beliefs can be mistaken - are objectively true or false. A culture"s practices can be mistaken (unjust) - are objectively morally right or morally wrong. X is good/just means nothing more than culture c thinks/practices x is good . %1 c. ) there"s a di erence between what the majority of a culture practices/thinks is morally right and what is really right. Tuesday, november 7, 2017: there are no (universally applicable) objective criteria/standards for what is just or unjust. According to objective relativism there are criteria/standards.
