Cultural Relativism
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Cultural relativism holds that right and wrong are fixed by each culture's moral code, and no culture's code is objectively better than another's.
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Herodotus tells of Greeks who burned their dead fathers and Callatians who ate theirs, each side horrified by the other. Cultural relativism says neither custom is the better.
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- 047 The Cultural Differences Argument
- 049 No Criticizing Other Societies
- 050 No Criticizing Your Own Society
- 052 Belief Differences Beneath Value Differences
- 053 Values Every Society Shares
- 054 What Cultural Relativism Gets Right
- 056 Sorting Convention from Morality
- 095 The Reformer's Case
- 269 The Local-Virtues Worry