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Published: 30.11.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Cultural Relativism', 1.
  • Essays 'Cultural Relativism', 2.
Extract

<Tab/>There are an enormous amount of people in this world that we live in. All of these people belong to different cultures and societies. Each society has traits and customs that make it different from any other. Every society has their own way of looking at and dealing with certain situations. "Different societies have different moral codes" (Rachels 618). This claim is known as Cultural Relativism. "Cultural Relativism, as it has been called, challenges our ordinary belief in the objectivity and universality of moral truth. There is no such thing as universal truth…

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