... beliefs of the subject, or one's self (Shaw, 15). The latter argument is much harder to reconcile with reason than the former. In comprehensive terms, relativism appeals to the idea that there is no absolute ethical standard independent of cultural context to act as a criterion of right and wrong, by ... to believe in their doctrines for them to be the correct moral authority? Ginsberg makes an excellent point in his Essays in Sociiology and Social Psychology. "Ethical Relativity may mean, in the first place, that moral value is relative to the subject asserting it or to the type of soc...

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