Exam 2: Subjectivism, Relativism, and Emotivism

The view that moral judgments can be judged true or false is called:

Cultural relativism implies that social reformers of every sort would always be wrong.

Some argue that a core set of moral values must be universal,otherwise cultures:

People often differ in their moral judgments because they:

Emotivists assert that moral disagreements are not conflicts of beliefs but are disagreements in attitude.

Subjective relativism:

Many critics reject emotivism because it offers an implausible view of moral reasons.

According to subjective relativism,an action is right if:

Cultural relativism implies that:

Embracing moral objectivism entails intolerance.

Objectivism is the doctrine that some moral norms are rigid rules that have no exceptions.

Moral objectivism necessarily implies that moral rules and principles have no exceptions.

Emotivism says that people can disagree about moral facts but not about moral attitudes.

Noncognitivism denies that moral judgments are statements that can be true or false.

The doctrine that some moral norms are valid for everyone (in other words,universal)is:

Cultural relativism is the view that an action is morally right if:

Subjective relativism implies that each person is:

To reject cultural relativism is to admit that one's own culture's norms may be fallible.

The view that moral statements are neither true nor false but are instead expressions of emotions or attitudes is called:

There is a necessary connection between tolerance and cultural relativism.