ethic relativism

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• ethical relativism — Philosophical view that what is right or wrong and good or bad is not absolute but variable and relative, depending on the person, circumstances, or social situation. Rather than claiming that an action s rightness or wrongness can depend on the… …   Universalium

• ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …   Universalium

• Dilthey, Wilhelm — Dilthey Michael Lessnoff INTRODUCTION Wilhelm Dilthey was born in 1833 near Wiesbaden, and thus lived through the period of Bismarck’s creation of a unified German Empire by ‘blood and iron’. These turbulent events, however, scarcely perturbed… …   History of philosophy

• Invariances — Invariances, published in 2001 by Harvard University Press, was Robert Nozick s last book before his death in 2002. Introduction In the introduction to his book Nozick assumes orthodox quantum mechanics and draws inferences from it about… …   Wikipedia

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• Secular ethics — is a branch of moral philosophy in which ethics is based solely on human faculties such as logic, reason or moral intuition, and not derived from purported supernatural revelation or guidance (which is the source of religious ethics). Secular… …   Wikipedia

• List of ethics topics — This list of ethics topics puts articles relevant to well known ethical (right and wrong, good and bad) debates and decisions in one place including practical problems long known in philosophy, and the more abstract subjects in law, politics, and …   Wikipedia

• Nakaluluwag — or nakakaluwag (variants: nakakaluwang or nakaluluwang) is a Filipino ethic wherein the well off are socially and morally obligated to help those in need. In Hiligaynon, the term is nakaalwan. It comes from the blending of the Chinese concept of… …   Wikipedia

• Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …   Universalium

• Bob Black — (born Robert Charles Black, Jr. on January 4, 1951) is an American anarchist and lawyer. He is the author of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays , Beneath the Underground , Friendly Fire , Anarchy After Leftism , and numerous political… …   Wikipedia

• Moral universalism — (also called moral objectivism or universal morality) is the meta ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is, for all similarly situated individuals ,[1] regardless of culture, race, sex,… …   Wikipedia