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Cultural Relativism
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Cultural relativism holds that right and wrong are fixed by each culture's moral code, and no culture's code is objectively better than another's.
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Herodotus tells of Greeks who burned their dead fathers and Callatians who ate theirs, each side horrified by the other. Cultural relativism says neither custom is the better.
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- 047The Cultural Differences Argument
- 049No Criticizing Other Societies
- 050No Criticizing Your Own Society
- 052Belief Differences Beneath Value Differences
- 053Values Every Society Shares
- 054What Cultural Relativism Gets Right
- 056Sorting Convention from Morality
- 095The Reformer's Case
- 269The Local-Virtues Worry