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What is the relationship between morality and culture?
Culture reflects the moral values and ethical norms governing how people should behave and interact with others.
What does culture say about truth and morality?
Different cultures have different moral codes. Therefore, there is no objective “truth” in morality. Right and wrong are only matters of opinion, and opinions vary from culture to culture. The fact that cultures have differing beliefs about what is moral does not imply that morality is culturally relative.
What is morality in culture?
moral culture is a particular constellation of ideas andfeelings pertaining to the basic responsibilities and. limitations of human beings. Moral logics are guidelines for acting with regard to the right-wrong. distinction – deriving obligations, justifying claims, making decisions in cases where right and wrong.
How is it possible for people in different cultures to disagree about moral judgments and still embrace the same fundamental moral principles?
Why? Vaughn: how is it possible for people in different cultures to disagree about moral judgments but embrace the same moral principles? They are immoral to the culture because they go against the norms, but may also see the culture as immoral. Is there a necessary connection between cultural relativism and tolerance?
Do we make culture or culture make us?
Culture does make humans what they are, but humans also make culture. We constantly make changes to our culture. It guides us through life, but we also change and modify it to our needs and desires. Processes of cultural change: Cultural change is usually slow and deliberate.
How is culture a source of morality?
This view is called Cultural Relativism, the position that morality is relative to one’s culture. Cultural relativism is a moral theory. You were raised in a society that defends diversity and respects people’s cultural differences. Everyone knows that we should respect different cultures and their moral beliefs.
How would you know whether a moral disagreement was based on a basic difference in moral values or facts?
How would you know whether a moral disagreement was based on a basic difference in moral values or facts? As an example, use differences about the moral justifiability of capital punishment. When facts do not change the moral conclusions then they are based on moral values differences.
Are all moral behavior the same among all cultures?
Cultures vary substantially in both moral judgments and moral behaviors. Cultural variations in morality within societies can vary as much as cultural variations in morality between societies. We review contemporary work on cultural factors affecting moral judgments and values, and those affecting moral behaviors.