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by Rany Tandoom on February 28th, 2009

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What is different between Subjectivism and Societal Ethical Relativism?

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  • by philosopher-saint on June 23rd, 2009

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    The latter includes the former when viewed within a social context, as self relative to 'other'.
    ;-)

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  • by iwnit on March 16th, 2009

    iwnit

    Ethical relativism can either be grounded on personal (subjective) standards or on societal standards:

    "Meta-ethical relativists maintain that all moral judgments have their origins either in societal or in individual standards, and that no single objective standard exists by which one can assess the truth of a moral proposition. While he preferred to deal with more practical real-life ethical matters, the British philosopher Bernard Williams (1929 – 2003) reluctantly came to this conclusion when he wrote from a meta-ethical standpoint. Meta-ethical relativists, in general, believe that the descriptive properties of terms such as "good", "bad", "right", and "wrong" do not stand subject to universal truth conditions, but only to societal convention and personal preference. Given the same set of verifiable facts, some societies or individuals will have a fundamental disagreement about what one ought to do based on societal or individual norms, and one cannot adjudicate these using some independent standard of evaluation. The latter standard will always be societal or personal and not universal, unlike, for example, the scientific standards for assessing temperature or for determining mathematical truths."
    Source and further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_relativism

    Further information:
    http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090228111252AAQbKjP


    "Is Freedom of Speech the real issue?
    No! The real issue in this article is not freedom of speech, but instead the growing rate of discrimination in the world. Discrimination against religion, culture, and race has escalated tremendously since 9/11. After reading the article, it seems that the entire western world, Europe and America, have increased immigration regulations and security. Living in United States, it is understandable considering the terror situation today. It is a sign of societal ethical relativism. Most of us believe that it is ethically wrong to discriminate; but I feel that society today tolerates it because of the present situations with the “war on terror.” Discrimination is splitting the world apart even more. It goes around in cycles. We discriminate against a group of people, they discriminate against us, and so we discriminate even more against them because of their discrimination against us. When will it end?"
    Source and further information:
    http://ethics.tamucc.edu/article.pl?sid=06/02/10/0448254

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