July 2‚ 2010 Ethics Reaction Paper 1 Relativism and Universalism The battle between relativism and universalism ideologies has been going on for several years now. There have been many highly respected people agreeing and disagreeing on which belief is right and wrong. The two well known are American Anthropologist Ruth Benedict and Dr. Louis Pojman. Upon reading their work‚ I found both of them to have very excellent points. I found myself hard to just pick one ideology. After
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Two major ethical viewpoints‚ relativism and universalism‚ discuss separate viewpoints for how morality is structured throughout the World. Universalism argues that all cultures around the world‚ despite their different lifestyles‚ can all agree on some basic moral value system. Inversely‚ relativism argues that each individual culture has its own set of moral codes and that no culture has the right to judge another’s based on what they deem morally just (Rosenstand‚ 2016). Even though many cultures
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Issues Today: Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism One of the most pertinent issues of the past twenty years has been the conflict between two different ideologies of human rights on a national scale‚ universalism‚ and cultural relativism. Universalism holds that more “primitive” cultures will eventually evolve to have the same system of law and rights as Western cultures. Cultural relativists hold an opposite‚ but similarly rigid viewpoint‚ that a traditional culture is unchangeable. In universalism
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Unitarian Universalism can trace their roots back to Christian Protestantism. Unitarianism developed in the Common Era as a belief that all people would be saved. The first Unitarian Churches were established in sixteenth-century Transylvania. These Churches continue to worship today. Universalism was developed in America in the late 1700’s and was established in Boston. It was not until the early 1960’s did these separate religious groups Unitarian and Universalism united to form what is now Unitarian
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Carrie Hodges Seth Pankratz World Religion 21 November 2011 Unitarian Universalism Unitarian Universalism is a religion that supports a free and responsible search for meaning and truth. Unitarian Universalism is made up of people with many different religious theories. They can come from any religious background and can adhere to morals from a variety of cultures. Meaning of life‚ creation‚ afterlife‚ existence‚ and deities are all based on individual truth and is accepted. Unitarian Universalists
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Unitarian Universalism “What is a Unitarian Universalist?” This is a question that many people have asked and will continue to ask in the future. There are many ways you can choose to answer this question and perhaps none of them will be able to tell the whole story. One way to answer the question is to go back to the start and show the history of the group and how it merged from two similar yet different liberal Christian denominations‚ into what it is today. From this we can find that Unitarianism
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Moral universalism Moral universalism also called as moral objectivism which can be defined as the position in meta-ethics that some moral values can be applied universally to everyone which is also known as universal morality. Besides‚ moral universalism also can be defined as the system of ethics‚ or a universal ethic that applies to all people regardless of their personal opinion or the majority opinion of their cultures. Furthermore‚ moral universalism also holds the moral values that apply
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unique and diverse religion that empowers it ’s congregations to teach and grow how they see fit. “By making friends of my Enemies‚ I destroy them.” Abraham Lincoln. These words hodl very true to the Unitarian view‚ without denomination or dogmatic practices that divide people one can worship freely. “We want people to learn in a way that is positive and educational‚ yet maintain an open viewpoint so they can better understand the way other cultures worship.” (Rev. M. Walker‚ personal conversation)
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Is moral universalism the truth? According to Streiffer [1]‚ moral universalism is an ethical position that there are some moral values which are agreed by all people‚ ignoring nationality‚ culture‚ religion or other differentiating features. Some famous philosophers‚ from the ancient Platonists and Stoics‚ to modern Kantian‚ Objectivist‚ believed in moral universalism. Besides‚ a majority of religions have morally universalist positions. However‚ at the same time‚ there are also some famous philosophers
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China and its influence on how women are treated there‚ etc. and it is a factor that should be taken into account. However‚ the universal capabilities approach fails to do so because there are differences in each culture’s history and traditions. Universalism assumes that everyone around the world is the same. Evidently‚ it does not make sense to treat Indian or Chinese women of today as bound by things in the past that we are not. That is‚ women today are not as heavily influenced by culture and historical
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