How Cultural or Descriptive Relativism Fails Flashcards
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What question must the cultural or descriptive relativist answer?
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How does it follow that because each group thinks it is right, therefore no group is correct?
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What is the first way cultural or descriptive relativism fails?
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It wrongly assumes that each culture has a unique set of moral values. Apparent moral differences are often not in conflict with the values themselves.
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What is the second way cultural or descriptive relativism fails?
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It only shows that there are differing opinions, not that no opinion is correct.
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What is the third way cultural or descriptive relativism fails?
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It denies that objectivity is possible, but the only way to know that is to have an objective point of view.
