Ethics Around the Globe
Cultural relativism is the view that the concept of right and wrong stems from the unique cultural viewpoints of people. If two cultures differ about whether any act is right or wrong, the framework of cultural relativism would hold that the act would be true for the culture that holds it to be so. The roots of cultural relativism arise from thinkers such as William Graham Sumner, who averred that the ‘right way’ was the way that the ancestors used, and that ‘tradition’ was ‘its own warrant’. Thus, cultural relativism challenges notions of universal moral truths, insisting that there Continue reading...
