Abstract
Abstract Moral Relativism can be considered an attractive alternative to realism because relativists can make good sense of cultural and societal disagreements by seeing them as faultless. However, we can show that this advantage is made possible by systematically disagreeing with moral phenomenology. Relativists make a substantial distinction between intercultural and intracultural discourses which turns out to be incoherent. This can be shown by making use of Crispin Wright’s notion of Cognitive Command.
Highlights
Moral Relativism can be considered an attractive alternative to realism because relativists can make good sense of cultural and societal disagreements by seeing them as faultless
John Mackie claimed that his relativist argument is not as important as the argument from queerness,[1] moral relativism is a widespread alternative to moral realism and constructivism which has one of its most profound advocates of our days in Gilbert Harman
The argument from relativity begins with the observation that obviously there are variations in moral systems among different cultures and different epochs
Summary
To understand the significance of Mackie’s argument, we have to distinguish two varieties of moral relativism and see how they are related to each other.[3]. Even among societies under epistemically ideal conditions moral disagreement would obtain.[10] This argument rest on the assumption that the basic needs and ends are themselves not object of evaluation but rather provide the fixed basis of deliberation. This view might result in the implausible thesis that moral change and development within a given society is, strictly speaking, not possible because the starting point of moral deliberation always stays the same. This is why relativist approaches can be considered as an attractive alternative to realism when one has abandoned the realist’s idea of an autarkic moral realm.[13]
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