Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 054 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Cultural Relativism Gets Right
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The idea
Cultural relativism's sound core is a warning: some practices are local convention, and confidence that our own customs are moral law is often misplaced.
In practice
An expatriate manager reads a host country's gift-giving at contract signing as bribery. Some of what feels like ethics is etiquette.
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