Cultural is defined as a shared design for living. It is based on the values and practices of society. People absorb culture through early process of socialization and the process carries over to the way in which they perceived themselves and the world. Some people agree that cultural diversity in the workplace develop our country skills and contributes to the growth. But how far these opinion accepted by the society as a whole. Many corporations have recognized that diversity contributes to the
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What is the concept of relativist morality: Moral relativism is an opposing perspective from the objective ways of a moral absolutist such as Plato ‚ whose moral standards are fixed regardless of the context. The whole concept of absolutism is universal and deontological; therefore it is unchanging. Whereas Moral relativism is teleological: the outcome of the action is not taken into consideration‚ meaning that moral relativism possesses moral truth that is dependent on place‚ culture‚ time and
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Self-Morality‚ Moral Relativism‚ and Divine Command Theory Lisa Salazar Essay 1 Part One: Introduction and Statement of Thesis What is morally right or wrong doesn’t depend on what ideology you believe in‚ Moral Relativism or Divine Command Theory‚ but your own individual self-morality. Believing in Divine Command Theory can become a problem when there is doubt of motivation and Moral Relativism can result in morality becoming inconsistent. The standard of consistency requires that “a moral
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Moral relativism is one’s perception of what is acknowledged to be morally just or unjust depending on accepted demeanor. Certain behaviors and manners that a specific culture may consider to be acceptable‚ another culture may consider to be unethical. In such an instance‚ neither one of the cultures would be incorrect. Morals are culturally defined in that it originates from the root as to what is considered socially acceptable. In Mary Midgley’s “Trying out one’s new sword”‚ she argues that moral
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Nathanael Fires Dr. Kant-Byers Cultural Anthropology 5/15/15 Essay #2 Cultural anthropologists main job is to study different cultures all over the world and then to compare the similarities and differences to their own culture or other cultures. This is typically done by that anthropologist going and living with that cultural group for an extended period of time so they can learn everything there is to that particular culture. While they are there‚ they learn about everything that they can‚ from
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or morally wrong if one approves or disproves of torturing babies. According to subjectivism‚ things are either right or wrong according to an individuals attitudes and feelings. Cultural relativism differs from objectivists view on moral truths as it believes also there are no objective moral truths. Cultural relativism believe morality is based on the moral code of a culture. Moral codes
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wrong‚ these are basically cultural norms which define a particular society. So it warns about the dangers of assuming that our preferences are based upon some absolute rational standard.
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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
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Four ideas that Allen think should be distinguished from relativism is: Skepticism - Is when people are questioning the authenticity of the beliefs. Your beliefs of something is true and supported but when someone questions you on a deeper level such as the origin of your beliefs‚ you may become speechless and have trouble finding words to defend your beliefs. Others may also question you a lot on your beliefs due to the nature of their curiosity. Different people can be justified in holding different
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Military: Cultural Awareness Congressional and military leaders have directed improvement in cultural awareness training throughout the Department of Defense. However there are severe challenges‚ especially in an era of limited resources‚ transformation and combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Research shows that cultural decisions may not always achieve their desired effect; many bad decisions are a result of cultural ignorance. This article showed several ways to improve cultural awareness
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