{"id":32813,"date":"2023-08-31T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/identify-explain-the-three-main-tenets-of-moral-realism-identify-explain-the-main-tenets-of-cultural-ethical-relativism-explain-the-connection-if-any-between-cultural-ethical-relativism-and-to\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T19:40:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:40:20","slug":"identify-explain-the-three-main-tenets-of-moral-realism-identify-explain-the-main-tenets-of-cultural-ethical-relativism-explain-the-connection-if-any-between-cultural-ethical-relativism-and-to","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/identify-explain-the-three-main-tenets-of-moral-realism-identify-explain-the-main-tenets-of-cultural-ethical-relativism-explain-the-connection-if-any-between-cultural-ethical-relativism-and-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify &#038; explain the three main tenets of Moral Realism. Identify &#038; explain the main tenets of Cultural Ethical Relativism. Explain the connection, if any, between Cultural Ethical Relativism and Tolerance."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">People sometimes want to say that morality is &#8220;relative&#8221; &#8212; usually meaning it is relative to a given culture. The old saying &#8220;when in Rome, do as the Romans&#8221; expresses this idea. This approach is usually called &#8220;Cultural Ethical Relativism&#8221;, or just &#8220;Cultural Relativism&#8221; for short. Moral relativists usually say this is a good thing, because we shouldn&#8217;t go around judging others &#8212; who are we to say what is right or wrong for ancient Romans anyway? This would mean there is no<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">REAL<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>difference between morality and custom. Many other people think&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">morality<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>must be different from mere custom. In fact, they think a culture may have customs that are morally wrong, such as genital mutilation, for example. The idea that some moral truths or moral facts exist is called &#8220;Moral Realism&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Identify<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>&amp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">explain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>the three main tenets of Moral Realism.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">Identify<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>&amp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">explain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>the main tenets of Cultural Ethical Relativism.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">Explain the connection<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.666666px; cursor: auto;\">, if any, between Cultural Ethical Relativism and Tolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People sometimes want to say that morality is &#8220;relative&#8221; &#8212; usually meaning it is relative to a given culture. The old saying &#8220;when in Rome, do as the Romans&#8221; expresses this idea. This approach is usually called &#8220;Cultural Ethical Relativism&#8221;, or just &#8220;Cultural Relativism&#8221; for short. Moral relativists usually say this is a good thing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=32813"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=32813"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=32813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}