Cultural Differences Between Greek And Callatians
Morality can differ in every culture and society because of how different people are and how disconnected everyone are in the world. Due to this, people have made up idea called cultural relativism. Cultural relativism means each individual understands everyone’s beliefs and activities. But there are many issues that challenges this idea. Furthermore, because there are many different cultures in the world there are many different moral codes. For an example the Greeks and the Callatians practice totally different ideas of funerals. The Callatians use to eat the bodies of their fathers. Doing this in today standards for our cultural would be unethical and just plainly wrong. In addition, the Greeks practice cremation, meaning they burned the
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bodies of the dead. Many centuries ago a king wanted to learn more about other people’s cultures. He asks the Greeks what it would take for them to dead the bodies of their dead fathers. Once they were asked that, they were horrified and replied that they would never do something like that. Likewise, the Callatians were ask what it would take to follow the custom of the Greeks. They responded the same way.
Cultural relativism has five claims.
The first one is that different societies have different moral codes. Second, that the moral code of what is right and wrong depends on what society you are in. Third, there is no standard that can be used to see which society is better than another. Fourth, our society is nothing special. Lastly, it is arrogant to judge other cultures, we should be tolerant. Each claim is all independent from each other and do not correlate together. The second and the fifth claim both inconstant with each other. For an example, what if a society supports intolerance. In 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland. With the idea of cultural relativism, people cannot find them intolerant because they were following their own moral code. With this we would have to be tolerant of all warlike societies that are hurting their own people and invading other countries around them. Equally important, is how a cultural relativist directs an argument about cultures. They start the argument about facts of the cultures and draw a conclusion about morality. Even through this can work with some arguments it cannot work with every single one. For an example, some societies still believe that the earth is flat even though our societies know that the earth is a sphere. This can be proven and shown that the society that thinks the earth is flat, is just wrong about
it.
Altogether, cultural relativism has many issues that challenge the idea of it being correct. But, there some good things about this idea. The first thing is that it tells us, is that not all of the things our society does is based on a high standard. The second, is that it is important to keep an open mind about everything. With these two things that come from this idea shows that part of the theory of cultural relativism is correct.
bodies of the dead. Many centuries ago a king wanted to learn more about other people’s cultures. He asks the Greeks what it would take for them to dead the bodies of their dead fathers. Once they were asked that, they were horrified and replied that they would never do something like that. Likewise, the Callatians were ask what it would take to follow the custom of the Greeks. They responded the same way.
Cultural relativism has five claims.
The first one is that different societies have different moral codes. Second, that the moral code of what is right and wrong depends on what society you are in. Third, there is no standard that can be used to see which society is better than another. Fourth, our society is nothing special. Lastly, it is arrogant to judge other cultures, we should be tolerant. Each claim is all independent from each other and do not correlate together. The second and the fifth claim both inconstant with each other. For an example, what if a society supports intolerance. In 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland. With the idea of cultural relativism, people cannot find them intolerant because they were following their own moral code. With this we would have to be tolerant of all warlike societies that are hurting their own people and invading other countries around them. Equally important, is how a cultural relativist directs an argument about cultures. They start the argument about facts of the cultures and draw a conclusion about morality. Even through this can work with some arguments it cannot work with every single one. For an example, some societies still believe that the earth is flat even though our societies know that the earth is a sphere. This can be proven and shown that the society that thinks the earth is flat, is just wrong about
it.
Altogether, cultural relativism has many issues that challenge the idea of it being correct. But, there some good things about this idea. The first thing is that it tells us, is that not all of the things our society does is based on a high standard. The second, is that it is important to keep an open mind about everything. With these two things that come from this idea shows that part of the theory of cultural relativism is correct.