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Understanding Cultural Relativism in Ethics by kim rina is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Cultural relativism holds that ethical judgments originate from individual or cultural standards. It is the view that what is morally right or wrong depends on the traditions and customs of a particular society. According to cultural relativism, an act is ethical in a culture that approves of it but immoral in a culture that disapproves of it. However, cultural relativism has several flaws, such as implying that objectively immoral acts like racism or oppression would be acceptable if a culture approved of
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- kim rina
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