Ethical Relativism: How It Faces a Dilemma from Moral Disagreement

ETHICAL RELATIVISM: HOW IT FACES A DILEMMA FROM MORAL DISAGREEMENT // Ethical relativism holds that moral judgments are true when they accurately describe what a culture endorses morally. Acts are right or wrong relative to cultural practices. But, this leads to a dilemma. Can two cultures disagree about the morality of different practices? It seems to happen all the time. But this leads to either a logical contradiction or it leads to the impossibility of moral disagreement. In this video lecture, I explain how this dilemma arises and provide two response strategies to it. ---------- ? Subscribe to this YouTube channel: https://geni.us/ecXASc ✅ Share this video with a friend: https://youtu.be/dYgME1jYJo4 ---------- ✅ Get a free course! Discover a powerful 3-step method to think critically about an issue that matters to you! Find out more about The Philosophical Life and get your free course now: https://thephilosophicallife.com/ ---------- PRIMARY REFERENCE FOR CONTENT AND SLIDES: Russ Shafer-Landau (2019), Living Ethics, Oxford University Press [Amazon: https://geni.us/LivingEthics] A.P. Martinich (2015), Philosophical Writing: An Introduction (4th ed.), Wiley-Blackwell [Amazon: https://geni.us/PhilosophicalWriting] ---------- Watch my other ethics videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpU_p4iUA6vdwZmhMH9ve8rknsbijxXGw ---------- Get Exclusive Content at The Philosophical Life’s Social Communities: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thephilosophicallife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thephilosophicallife/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinkvirtuously ----------- Thank you for watching and keep living The Philosophical Life! —Christopher “Morality Isn’t Relative” Cloos #Relativism #Dilemma #ThePhilosophicalLife