Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 051 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Moral-Progress Problem
Captions available
The idea
If cultural relativism is true, moral progress is impossible; a change in a society's code is movement, never improvement, because no standard outranks the code.
In practice
Call the end of legal slavery progress and relativism corrects the verb: the code changed. Better requires a measure the theory has removed.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for Ethics and Values