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Professional Ethics & Human Values / September 14, 2021

What are the three senses of relative values?

Ethical Relativism •     Actions are morally right in a particular society if they are approved by law, custom, or other conventions of the society. Descriptive Relativism •    Value beliefs and attitudes differ from culture to culture and this is a fact. Moral Relationalism or Contextualism (Ethical pluralism) •     Moral judgements should be made in relation to factors that vary between issues. Hence it is not possible to formulate rules that are simple and applicably to all situations.

By · September 14, 2021 · 1 min read

Ethical Relativism

•     Actions are morally right in a particular society if they are approved by law, custom, or other conventions of the society.

Descriptive Relativism

•    Value beliefs and attitudes differ from culture to culture and this is a fact.

Moral Relationalism or Contextualism (Ethical pluralism)

•     Moral judgements should be made in relation to factors that vary between issues. Hence it is not possible to formulate rules that are simple and applicably to all situations.