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| cultural (or Social) relativism |
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| Belief that ethical value is relative to culture or society. |
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| Belief that the study of ethics tries to describe necessary features of reality and that priciples of ethics apply and have always applied to eveyone. |
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| Belief that ethical principles depend upon features that can vary at different times and in different places. |
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| Belief that ethical judgments apply to all humans equally, that there are universal ethical truths, and that these truths are the same for everyone. |
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| Belief that the ethical value of an action is relative not the culture as a whole, but to the individual him- or herself. |
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| Belief that there is no such thing as ethical value at all. |
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| Belief that doubts that ethical values exists |
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| Belief that there is a standard external to the person making ethical judgements against which those judgments can be held. |
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| Belief that ethical judgements are relative to the individual person, or subject, making the judgment. |
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