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- Title
Relativism and Intracultural Conflict.
- Authors
Wreen, Michael
- Abstract
A number of arguments against moral relativism are based on the reality of intracultural conflict or the related possibility of sliding down a slippery slope and out the door of morality altogether. The first batch of arguments draws upon the evident fact that cultures are not unitary or homogenous but contain subgroups at odds with each other. The second batch is based on the claim that if moral truth is relativized to a culture, consistency demands that it eventually be relativized to the individual, and with that comes the end of morality. In this paper, (A) moral relativism is first defined, clarified, and defended—these preliminaries being necessary, given what follows—and (B) the common but infrequently discussed arguments mentioned above are distinguished, exposed, explained, evaluated, and ultimately rejected.
- Subjects
RELATIVITY; MORAL relativism; CULTURAL relativism; ETHICS; POSSIBILITY
- Publication
Acta Analytica, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p537
- ISSN
0353-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12136-022-00539-8