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Why is it not tenable in Ethics?
What is Cultural Relativism?
- refers to not judging a culture to
our own standards of what is right
or wrong, strange or normal.
Instead, we should try to
understand cultural practices of
other groups in its own cultural
context.
Cultural relativism is the idea
that a person's beliefs, values, and
practices should be understood
based on that person's own
culture, and not be judged against
the criteria of another.
 Why is it not tenable in
Ethics?
- It is not tenable because ethicists believe that the
concept of cultural relativism threatens the
discipline of ethics since, if values are relative to a
given culture then this must mean that there
are no universal moral absolutes by which the
behavior of people can be judged.