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Published: 16.01.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Cultural Relativism: Moral Beliefs ', 1.
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Cultural relativism is the viewpoint and belief that there are no absolute moral truths, only truths relative to the culture in which you belong to. What one society would consider morally right, another society might consider to be morally wrong, therefore, what is morally right and what is morally wrong are only relative to a particular, individual society. Cultural relativism implies that what is "good" is what is "socially approved" to a culture.
Beliefs, values, and morals are all based on individual cultures. …

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