part of his speech by explaining how many countries around the world have different cultural views that are unique. He then begins to challenge relativism by stating that the tradition of repression women and not sending children‚ especially girls‚ to school is holding many countries back. It is clear that Obama’s ideas are against relativism because relativism is defined as‚ "the view that there are no universally objective principles or values beyond the beliefs and customs of specific cultures‚ and
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I believe the act of deliberately sacrificing another human being is morally wrong‚ but there are some cases where it is justifiable. I also believe that cultural relativism plays a role in this‚ and that some societies view sacrificing others as morally right and that culture needs to be taken into consideration. An example of this is the killing of female babies in the Inuit culture. Female babies were killed due to a high death rate among men‚ who were hunters‚ which led to a surplus of females
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is relative is self-refuting. The idea of moral relativism is that different civilizations have different moral beliefs‚ and that there is no absolute moral truth. “There is no actual standard that makes one societal code better than any other.” Each society lives by its cultural norms‚ and if someone from another culture came and did something different from the norm‚ then that person would be judged. One of the problems with moral relativism is that we cannot criticize someone for bad behavior
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Despite the different forms of relativism in the end they are all constitute to the construction of the meaning‚ thus the social constructions and symbolic interactions are all significant when examining the problems existing with relativism. Relativism as a whole incorporates many strengths and weaknesses. However‚ for many the problems of relativism within the study of deviance underpin the strengths. Miller and Holstein (2007) The central problem deriving from relativism is that deviance and crimes
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Cultural relativism is defined as the idea that a person actions or behavior should be judged within the context of that person’s culture. While this seems like a simple concept‚ it can be difficult for many people to fully accept (Eriksen 73). Whether this is caused by ignorance or a negative bias of the culture being analyzed as a whole‚ the most effect method to increase cultural relativism is to increase awareness of the differences between cultures
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Nadia Chatarpal Chatarpal 1 Dr. Llizo Intro to Philosophy 6 December 2013 Bluffing or Lying? Consider the case of a man slyly cheating you at your own business to win money. If he never did anything lawfully wrong‚ would it still be deemed as his wrongdoing‚ as for how he has slyly stolen your money? Though we must remember that every human activity aims at some end that we consider good‚ we must be ready to accept the consequences and flaws in all of humanity‚ and understand that the
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Running head: MODEL OF NURSING CARE AND PATIENT SAFETY Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety October 10‚ 2009 Model of Nursing Care and Patient Safety The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the model of nursing care used in my facility‚ and how it relates to the American Nurses Code of Ethics (ANA) and patient safety guidelines. The hospital I worked for is a catholic based nonprofit organization‚ which uses Patient Centered Nursing Care model in most of the areas
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Patient confidentiality In a television episode of ER which aired on NBC in 2000‚ Carol Hathaway became aware of risky sexual behaviors that had led to a 14 year old girl having a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and cervical cancer. Prior to finding this information out‚ Carol Hathaway had promised the patient that she would not tell anyone about whatever the patient discussed with her. But upon realizing the high risk of the girl’s behavior‚ Carol Hathaway came to find herself in a dilemma of
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studies‚ there is a balance. There is a balance‚ especially‚ in the continuum of the relationship between the concepts of cultural relativism and ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is defined as “a point of view that one’s own way of life is to be preferred above all others” (Rosado). This is an interesting viewpoint on life‚ contrasted by the definition of cultural relativism‚ which is the view that “values that are established by a culture are relative to the cultural ambiance out of which they arise”
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Cultural relativism can be defined as the understanding that the choices one can consider morally right are those approved of by one’s culture. Cultural differences in moral beliefs don’t imply cultural relativism because nonmoral beliefs can alter the perspective of basic moral principles shared by the culture. This would imply that there are no universally set/correct moral standards. Saying that cultural differences in moral beliefs imply cultural relativism is only part of an argument‚ not a
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