A CRITICAL LOOK AT MORAL RELATIVISM
Keywords:
RELATIVISM, Morality, CRITICAL LOOK, Ethical or Moral Phenomenon, Ethics, ReligionAbstract
Relativism in morality is a widespread phenomenon. It is prevalent among philosophers, theologians, students, social activists and politicians. I intend to study and evaluate it in the following way. First I define and describe the phenomenon of relativism. Then the phenomenon of morality will be described and in the final section I will evaluate relativism.
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