Broadly speaking, ethical relativism contends that ethical rules are drawn from human experience and that what is right or wrong is dependent upon particular times and places. There are cultural ...

I receive a fair share of e-mail from people who complain about “ethical relativism.” It’s ruining the world, they say. Unfortunately, most of these people have a faulty knowledge of what ethical ...

This is Part 2 of a series on moral relativism. The previous article can be found here. Lack of virtue. Moral relativism is based on individual preferences. Exactly who would do the nominating who for ...

"Isn't all morality relative?" I often get this question from students, as there seems to be a fairly pervasive acceptance of moral relativism in much of our culture these days. However, the answer to ...

Everything I have said and done is these last years is relativism, by intuition. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist ...

The United States Senate should reject the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. We believed it was wrong for the Senate to consider this nomination in the first place given the ...

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