Moral Relativism

Moral Relativism At first glance, moral relativism appears to be an appealing, well though out philosophical view; the truth of moral judgments is relative to the judging subject or community. The basic definition of moral relativism is that all moral points of view are equally valid; no single person’s morals are any more right or wrong than any other person’s. As you look closer at the points that moral relativists use to justify …

…by which all people life their lives, these universal standards are not the ones depicted by James Rachels but are similar to the ones he defines. There is proof that our moral standards are objective and that they do change. Look at how we now view slavery and injustices committed against innocent free thinkers every day. Moral relativism is not a sound philosophical argument since most of the theories or moral relativism are easily refuted.