PHIL 200 Study Guide - Cultural Relativism, Ethical Egoism, Psychological Egoism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 200
• Professor: Michael Blome Tillmann

Document Summary

Moral subjectivism: there are only subjective moral truths which stand true for some people at some times. No objective universal moral truths codes . Moral code of a society defines their way of judgments. **ethical relativism does not follow from cultural relativism. Ethical relativism can be false even if cultural relativism is true. Argument is invalid, therefore unsound: concerns what people believe, concerns what is(what is not) the case. If ethical relativism is true: we cannot morally assess others, we can judge our acts through the standards of our own society. Cultural relativism is a claim about the difference in values between societies. And anthropology claims that different societies have different cultures. But difference in custom does not suggest as difference in values. Even aggression is ok in some remote cultures in the amazon and. At an earlier time, in some cultures in western asia and northern africa, families would bury their child if it was a daughter.