ethical relativism in a sentence
Examples
- Lines like " You want an apology for ethical relativism or something ? " are delivered frequently, and often with intense seriousness.
- Lawyers of Lowell's ilk think the times favor their brand of ethical relativism, and if their take on the culture is correct, that's bad news.
- In a world gone grey with moral and ethical relativism only Jack Reacher stubbornly sticks to his high standards no matter what the personal cost.
- But equally grave crimes and radical denials of freedom have also been committed and are still being committed in the name of " ethical relativism ."
- Soon Taylor's agonizings over determinism and ethical relativism make the film seem a screenful of interesting and even original material filled with good intentions, but essentially didactic and undigested.
- Other varieties of relativism include cognitive relativism ( the general claim that all truth and knowledge is relative ) and Ethical Relativism ( the claim that moral judgments are relative ).
- It also dwells on contemporary Catholic lapses, including indifference, " ethical relativism, " many Catholics'failure to defend the unborn from " abortion laws, " as well as their neglect of the poor.
- And there is its contention that, although not all morality can be written into civil law, to remove legal protection from life at any stage-- even by majority vote-- introduces an ethical relativism that ultimately undermines democracy itself.
- Second, claims about actual differences between groups play a central role in some arguments for normative relativism ( for example, arguments for normative ethical relativism often begin with claims that different groups in fact have different moral codes or ideals ).
- They want to stomp on Saddam to exorcise the specters of Vietnam and Watergate _ the ethical relativism, the lack of patriotism, the postmodern angst, the loss of moral authority, the feeling that America is in decline or in the wrong, the do-whatever-feels-good Clintonesque ethos.