Which is the moral theory that the truth of moral claims and which values people should adopt vary across cultures divided by times and places. What is morally permissible in one culture may be morally wrong in another culture?

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Deanna

8 July, 16:20

Which is the moral theory that the truth of moral claims and which values people should adopt vary across cultures divided by times and places. What is morally permissible in one culture may be morally wrong in another culture?

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Raphael Vargas · Answer 1

The answer to the question: Which is the moral theory that states that the truth of moral claims and values people should adopt vary across cultures divided by time and places, would be: Relativism.

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Relativism is a philosophical current of thought that has been known to exist almost since ancient Greece. This current has been applied throughout time to many aspects of human life, and most importantly to morality, and the human question to what is right and what is wrong. Moral relativism, therefore, is a current of thought in which the question of what is right, and what is wrong, is not dictated by universal standards, or universally acceptable principles and values, but rather by the situations and conditions that surround a person; therefore making these principles and values relative, and totally circumstantial. Thus, moral relativism is the current that explains that people's moral claims, moral values and principles be tied to such relative factors as culture, time and place, and not to universal principles of behavior.