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Ethical Dispute Or Cultural Difference? Figuring Out ‘Moral Relativism’

IDEAS Posted: November 25, 2015 1:55 am

“Because the term ‘moral relativism’ is closely associated with this subjectivist picture of morality, it elicits understandable hostility. How can we earnestly hold our moral commitments if we give up on the aspiration to objectivity regarding morals, to getting them right rather than wrong? I think there is another way to understand what moral relativism involves, which does not require us to give up our aspiration to objectivity. Let me use an example.”

IDEAS Published: 11.23.15

Read the story in New York Times Published: 11.23.15

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