moral relativism

English

Noun

moral relativism (usually uncountable, plural moral relativisms)

  1. (philosophy) Any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.
    Double standards could be thought of as Satanic in the context of moral relativism.

Usage notes

  • Descriptive moral relativism holds only that some people do in fact disagree about what is moral; meta-ethical moral relativism holds that in such disagreements, nobody is objectively right or wrong; and normative moral relativism holds that because nobody is right or wrong, we ought to tolerate the behavior of others even when we disagree about the morality of it.
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