Ariadne's Thread on Ethical Relativism
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The point that Westermarck and Herskovits want to make is that there is no such thing as objective value. Values are learned by the individual through the process of enculturation. A few people may be ideosyncratic, but only a few. So we could define ethical relativism as follows:
  • People acquire their values from their culture and these values vary from culture to culture. 

  • No objective source of values exists.
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