Discussion Questions On Ethical Relativism In Ancient Greece

For Velasquez 7.1-7.2. All of your responses should be written in complete sentences.
Define Ethics? What does it study?
Ethics is the study of morality.
Triese determine what things in life are morally good as well as which actions are right.

How does ethics differ from sociology, anthropology or other social sciences?
Ethics asks how ought to behave or what people ought to believe is morally right and morally wrong.

Define descriptive relativism holds a fact that moral beliefs and practices vary between cultures

Define ethical relativism.
Is the view that not only do a person's beliefs about moral right and wrong depend on their culture but that moral right and wrong depend on a person's culture.

What are reasons for thinking that ethical
Ethical Relativism doesn't safeguard tolerance.
It either says minority voices are always wrong or seems to relativize morality to the individual.
It leads to revolting implications like denying the category of moral progress. For "Moral Relativism," sections 1, 2, and 3. All of your responses should be written in complete sentences.
Identify and briefly explain two examples from Ancient Greece of moral relativism.
Darius then asked some Callatiae who were present if they would ever consider burning their fathers’ bodies, as was the custom among Greeks. The Callatiae were horrified at the suggestion.
We have two different people group coming in contact. One group does a practice, which is believed to be right while the other is horrified at such a practice. This is because the societies have a different understanding of what is/are the morally correct ways.
Religious practices
Once religion becomes set, and scriptures are understood as absolutes, this begins to clash with other religions
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Pick any two of the philosophers from the modern period. Briefly explain their views on moral relativism.
Yes, it is saying the same thing.

Define Cultural Relativism. What label does Velasquez use for the same idea?
Cultural relativism asserts that the beliefs and practices of human beings are best understood by grasping them in relation to the cultural context in which they occur.
Vasquez
I think it was ethical relativism.

What are the two statements that appear to sum up moral relativism (you can find them in section "g. Moral Relativism.")? According to those statements, how should the claim "slavery is unjust" be evaluated?"
1. Moral judgments are true or false and actions are right or wrong only relative to some particular standpoint (usually the moral framework of a specific community).
2. No standpoint can be proved objectively superior to any other.
Slavery is either true or false as a practice to be accepted if and only if the society believes it to be acceptable.
Ex,
The south in the civil war found it to be acceptable, while the Union found it to be a bad practice.
The other one is no other person has a right to say slavery is false, because it is a standpoint in which one is unable to be