Cultural Relativism of Philosophy:-.
Date Submitted: 04/04/2003 20:16:06
Cultural Relativism and Human Rights
Cultures with their morals differ from each other across the world and with that indifference comes a conflict about which morals are right. James Rachels challenges the idea of cultural relativism. In this paper I review Benedicts concept and compare it to Rachels challenge, offering my reasoning for disagreement as well.
The Cultural Relativism theory puts forth the idea that what is morally right, is relative to the culture that
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unaware of concepts that would make them to be morally inferior. If anything the theory reminds us to not be prejudice. I can accept the cultural relativism theory only in part, because although it does point out that cultures are different from each other, normal is not synonymous with moral, which is the basis of the theory. To believe that morality is simply based on only what your culture believes it to be is irrational.
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