Chapter Two | Subjectivism, Relativism, and Emotivism
Learning Objectives
» Understand subjective relativism and be able to detail the reasons why many philosophers and other thinkers reject it.
» Understand cultural relativism and its philosophical implications.
» Know the most common argument for cultural relativism and be able to critique it.
» Be able to assess the view that tolerance is entailed by cultural relativism.
» Be able to define cognitivism, noncognitivism, and emotivism.
» Identify the major philosophical implications of emotivism and explain why many thinkers have found them unacceptable.
Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues by Lewis Vaughn
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