PHILO-4: ETHICS EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

PHILO-4: ETHICS EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS A cultural ethical relativist claims that morality... varies widely from culture to culture; is dependent on the practices and preferences of the majority of the members of a particular culture; cannot be defined universally; cannot be compared or judged cross-culturally Gilbert Harman defended a relativistic position based on the idea that morality is based on... a contract to which people in a society agree - whether implicitly or explicitly According to Corvino, why won't a natural law approach resolve the problem with cultural ethical relativism? because what is natural to human kind is what we do - it doesn't establish what we ought to do; because attempting to compare what humans ought to do to what other species actually do, is not helpful because humans often do things that other animals don't and we generally accept these pieces of behavior as not only beneficial but essential to our health (e.g. inoculations, surgery, attend college...etc)