Assignment
1) What is the difference between cultural ethical relativism (CER) and ethical perspectivism (EP)?
2) Meta-ethical relativism is the opposite of ethical subjectivism. True or False?
3) Ethical perspectivism is suppored by the fact that: Circle all that apply.
a) Cultures are different
b) Individuals are different
c) Each one's experience is unique
d) None of the above
4) What is the difference between a judgment of fact and a judgment of value? Give an example of each.
5) The course will teach us different ethical theories. Therefore, it assumes that ethical relativism is right. True or False?
6) If I say that moral judgments or practices are better and others worse and say at the same time that I cannot deny the fact of meta-ethical relativism, am I contradicting myself? Yes or No? Defend your answer.
7) What is the difference between ‘prescriptive' and ‘descriptive'?
8) What is the difference between descriptive ethical relativism and prescriptive ethical relativism?
9) What is ethical objectivism?
10) Which of the following are true of ethical objectivism:
a) It is the opposite of ethical subjectivism
b) It is the opposite of cultural ethical relativism
c) Its danger is absolutism
d) It is ethnocentric
e) It holds that there are transcultural moral standards
11) A weaker form of ethical relativism is called "soft universalism" That means:
a) Cultures do not vary; there are universals
b) Cultures vary on the whole but some concerns are universal
c) There is no such thing as hard universaism
d) Both a and b
12) Give two good reasons for supporting cultural ethical relativism
13) How can relativism be logically self-contradictory?
14) Why is perspectivism sai to be incoherent or why is it not coherent with what we experience. (Give at least one reason.)
15) How can relativism be a form of laziness?
16) How might relativism undermine the value of tolerance - the very value it claims to uphpold?
17) Briefly, what is wrong about concluding that there are no objective standards in ethics based on twovery obvious facts: that cultures vary and individuals vary depending on their enculturation?
18) For a relativist, anything goes. All opinions are equal. True or False?
19) If ethical cultural relativism is true, give two disturbing consequences.
20) The oral pluralist is contrasted with the moral realist? What does a moral realist claim? Is the moral realist an ethical objectivist?