Cultural relativism and ethical relativism
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This document discusses cultural relativism and ethical relativism. It defines cultural relativism as the descriptive claim that ethical practices differ between cultures, and what is considered right in one may be considered wrong in another. Ethical relativism is the logical result of claims of cultural relativism. The document provides examples of practices that differ between cultures, such as views on premarital sex and contraceptives. It also discusses challenges to ethical relativism, noting that cultural diversity does not necessarily mean ethical relativism, and there may be underlying shared ethical principles despite surface differences in behavior.
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It is clear to me therefore by every kind of proof that Cambyses was mad exceedingly; for otherwise he would not have attempted to deride religious rites and customary observances. For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best: and so it is not likely that any but a madman would make a jest of such things. Now of the fact that all men are thus wont to think about their customs, we may judge by many other proofs and more specially by this which follows:—Dareios in the course of his reign summoned those of the Hellenes who were present in his land, and asked them for what price they would consent to eat up their fathers when they died; and they answered that for no price would they do so. After this Dareios summoned those Indians who are called Callatians, who eat their parents, and asked them in presence of the Hellenes, who understood what they said by help of an interpreter, for what payment they would consent to consume with fire the bodies of their fathers when they died; and they cried out aloud and bade him keep silence from such words. Thus then these things are established by usage, and I think that Pindar spoke rightly in his verse, when he said that "of all things law is king."
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SICK SOCIETIES
AH societies are sick, but some are sicker than others, This paraphrase of Orwell's
famous quip about the equality of animals calls.attention to the existence of traditional
beliefs and practices that threaten human health and happiness more in some societies than
in others. But it also indicates that there are some customs and social institutialns in all
societies that compromise human well-being. Even populations tha t appear to be well-
adapted to their environments maintain some beliefs or practices that unnecessarily
imperil their well-being or, in some instances, their.survival. Populations the world over
have not been well sewed by some of their beliefs such as, for example, those concerning
witchcraft, the need for revenge, or male supremacy, and many of their tradkionral
practices invoiving nutrition, heaIth care, and the treatment of chillrirem have been harmful
as well, Slavery, infanticide, human sacrifice, torture, female genital mutilation, rape,
homicide, feuding, suicide, and environmental pollution have sometimes been needlessly
harmful to some or all members of a society and under some circumstances they can .
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Chapter 4
Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural
Relativism
Chapter Overview
Chapter 4 "Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism" examines some theories guiding
ethical decisions in business. It considers reactions to the possibility that there are no universal
definitions of right and wrong, only different customs that change from one society to another.
4.1 What Is Cultural Relativism?
L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E S
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1. Define cultural relativism.
2. Show how cultural relativism defies traditional ethics.
Nietzsche and the End of Traditional Ethics
“God is dead,” the declaration attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, stands along with “I think, therefore I
am” (René Descartes, 1641) as philosophy’s most popularized—and parodied—phrases. The t-shirt
proclaiming “Nietzsche is dead, signed, God” is funny, but it doesn’t quite answer what Nietzsche was
saying in the late 1800s. What Nietzsche meant to launch was not only an assault on a certain religion but
also a suspicion of the idea that there’s one source of final justice for all reality. Nietzsche proposed that
different cultures and people each produce their own moral recommendations and prohibitions, and
there’s no way to indisputably prove that one set is simply and universally preferable to another. The
suspicion that there’s no final appeal—and therefore the values and morality practiced by a community
can’t be dismissed as wrong or inferior to those practiced elsewhere—is called cultural relativism.
Example: For most of us, the killing of a newborn would be among the most heinous of immoral acts; a
perpetrator would need to be purely evil or completely mad. The Inuit Eskimos, however, regularly
practiced female infanticide during their prehistory, and it was neither evil nor insane. Their brutal living
conditions required a population imbalance tipped toward hunters (males). Without that gender
selecting, the plain fact was the entire group faced starvation. At another place and time, Bernal
Diaz’s The Conquest of New Spain recounts the Spanish invasion of the Americas and includes multiple
reports of newborns sacrificed in bloody ceremonies that made perfect sense to the locals, but left
Spaniards astonished and appalle.
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Chapter 4
Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural
Relativism
Chapter Overview
Chapter 4 "Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism" examines some theories guiding
ethical decisions in business. It considers reactions to the possibility that there are no universal
definitions of right and wrong, only different customs that change from one society to another.
4.1 What Is Cultural Relativism?
L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E S
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1. Define cultural relativism.
2. Show how cultural relativism defies traditional ethics.
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Socialization is the process through which individuals learn societal norms and expectations. It educates people about anticipated behaviors in different groups or contexts, serving as a mechanism for social regulation. Socialization begins in infancy and continues throughout life as individuals engage with new groups and contexts, learning appropriate behaviors. It occurs through interactions with family, peers, education, media, and other social institutions that teach cultural values and establish norms around topics like gender roles and identities.
Cultural relativism & Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism holds that morality is determined by one's own culture, and that no culture is superior to another. It challenges the idea of universal moral truths. However, cultural relativism is problematic as it cannot criticize objectively bad practices like genocide.
While cultures do have some differing moral codes, there is also significant agreement across cultures on basic moral rules necessary for societies to function. Many apparent disagreements are due to misunderstandings rather than true conflicts.
Ethnocentrism is the bias of judging another culture through the lens of one's own culture. It prevents open-minded understanding of other ways of life. Cultural relativism teaches tolerance of differences but not an obligation to accept all cultural practices.
The islamic view of women and the family by by muhammad abdul rauf
About the Author
Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Rauf was born in Egypt in 1917. By the age of
eight, he had committed the entire Qur'an to memory. After graduating
from al-Azhar in Cairo, he traveled to England, where he received
a B.A. and an M.A. from Cambridge and a Ph.D. in philosophy from
the University of London.
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in 1955 and the Department of Islamic Studies at the University of
Malaysia. He has been the rector of the International Islamic
University of Malaysia, the director of Islamic Missions at al-Azhar,
the Islamic Cultural Center in New York, the Islamic Center of
Washington, DC, and is presently the chairman of the Council of
Imams of North America.
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Cultural relativism
Cultural relativism poses a challenge to the possibility of ethics by claiming that:
1) Different cultures have differing moral codes, so what is right/wrong depends on the particular culture.
2) There are no objective moral standards that apply universally across cultures.
3) We should tolerate the moral beliefs of other cultures and not impose our own standards.
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3) Relativism undermines its own principle of tolerance by
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In Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, on Africa’s north-
ern coast, I met some U.S. college students and spent a couple
of days with them. They wanted to see the city’s red light
district, but I wondered whether it would be worth the trip. I
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sufficient.
Somewhere nearby, out of sight, I knew that there were
men whose wealth derived from exploiting these women who
were condemned to live short lives punctuated by fear and
misery.
The prostitutes sit
behind lighted picture
windows while cus-
tomers stroll along
the narrow canal side
streets and do “win-
dow shopping” from
the outside.
Afghanistan
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Differences in how we display gender
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statuses; that is, they cut ...
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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- 1. Prepared by: Ms. Mary Gilssie Joy Ecaldre CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND ETHICAL RELATIVISM
- 2. Logical result of the claims of cultural relativism. MORAL/ETHICAL RELATIVISM
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- 4. “a descriptive claim that ethical practices differ among cultures, that, as a matter of fact, what is considered right in one culture may be considered wrong in another culture” NORMAN BOWIE DEFINED CULTURAL RELATIVISM AS:
- 5. Here in the Philippines, premarital sex is morally unacceptable. If go to another country, teenagers want to lose their virginity at a young age. EXAMPLE 1:
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- 7. One society make any prohibitions on women; while another society allows women to have equal opportunities and obligations as men. EXAMPLE 3
- 8. They practice infanticide. They lend their wives to their visitors as a sign of hospitality. Abandon their old and feeble people in the snow to die. JAMES RACHELS NOTES ON THE INTERESTING BUT SEEMINGLY SCANDALOUS PRACTICES OF THE ESKIMOS:
- 9. WHO AND WHAT DECIDES WHETHER AN ACT IS MORALLY RIGHT OR WRONG? THE QUESTION FOR YOU IS!
- 10. WHO DECIDES WETHER BRIBERY TO GAIN BUSINESS ADVANTAGE IS RIGHT AND WRONG?
- 11. CULTURE is that which decides rightness and wrongness of one’s conduct.
- 12. Maintains the goodness and rightness depends on what is acceptable in one’s culture.
- 13. “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” RICHARD DE GEORGE DESCRIBES IT IN THE RELATION TO THE ADAGE THAT SAYS:
- 14. BOWIE STRESSES THAT ETHICAL RELATIVISM:
- 15. W.G. SUMNER
- 16. THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM
- 17. THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM
- 18. THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM
- 19. SERIOUS LAPSE IN THE REASONING OF THE ETHICAL RELATIVISTS WHEN IT CONCLUDES THAT THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE TRUTH IN ETHICS MERELY FROM THE FACT THAT THERE ARE DISAGREEMENT ABOUT AND DIFFERENCES IN MORAL BELIEFS, MORAL CODES AND MORAL PRACTICES RACHELS:
- 20. “CULTURAL DIVERSITY DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN ETHICAL RELATIVISM” GEORGE ENDERLE SAYS:
- 21. ☺SURFACE DIFFERENCES IN ETHICAL BEHAVIOR ☺UNDERLYING ETHICAL PRINCIPLES BOWIE