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The Challenge of Cultural Relativism—James Rachels
As Rachels notes, CRs make a variety of claims including:
1.Different societies have different moral codes.12.There is no objective standard that can be used to judge one societal code
better than another.23.The moral code of our own society has no special status; it is merely one among many.34.There is no "universal truth" in ethics; that is, there are no moral truths that hold for all people at all times.45.The moral code of a society determines what is right within that society' that is, if the moral code of a society says that a certain action is right, then that action is right, at least within that society.56.It is mere arrogance for us to try to judge the conduct of other peoples. We should adopt an attitude of tolerance toward the practices of other cultures.6
However, we need to determine what is a moral code? What is a moral relativism? Why accept moral relativism?
Moral Codes

The moral code for an individual......

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