Feb 19, 2004 · The term ‘moral relativism’ is understood in a variety of ways. Most often it is associated with an empirical thesis that there are deep and widespread moral disagreements …

Sep 11, 2015 · Briefly stated, moral relativism is the view that moral judgments, beliefs about right and wrong, good and bad, not only vary greatly across time and contexts, but that their …

Feb 19, 2004 · Moral relativism has the unusual distinction—both within philosophy and outside it—of being attributed to others, almost always as a criticism, far more often than it is explicitly …

Jun 14, 2002 · Skepticism about moral truth is the claim that no substantive moral belief is true. This claim is usually based on one of three more specific claims: Skepticism about moral truth …

Dec 8, 2021 · Appeals to moral disagreement have figured in philosophical discussions since antiquity, especially regarding questions about the nature of morality.

Jul 30, 2007 · One can be both a moral relativist and a moral objectivist (and thus a moral realist); conversely, one can be both a moral non-objectivist (and thus a moral anti-realist) and a moral …

Apr 17, 2002 · Even moral realists who offer fully developed moral theories do not tend to offer anything like a definition of morality. Instead, what these philosophers usually offer is a …

Feb 2, 2003 · It is possible to think of normative relativism about something, e.g., normative ethical relativism, as the thesis that claims about ethics are not true or false simpliciter, but …

Oct 29, 2004 · Hume sides with the moral sense theorists: we gain awareness of moral good and evil by experiencing the pleasure of approval and the uneasiness of disapproval when we …

Aug 26, 2004 · A typical Nietzschean form of argument, for example, runs as follows: a person’s theoretical beliefs are best explained in terms of his moral beliefs; and his moral beliefs are …