Review Questions

The more different the cultures, the more different the ______________________codes.

• Normative

• Ethical

• Moral

• Believes

________________________________ is often an appropriate reaction to interacting with positions, beliefs, and behaviors that are different from our own.

• Anti-tolerance

• behavior

• tolerance

______________________ maintain that moral facts exist independently of our opinions and judgments.

• Realist

   

• Moral Relativism

• Anti-realist

For the ___________________________, there are no mind- independent facts about morality.

• Moral realist

• Anti-realist

• Moral relativism

____________________________________, broadly construed, is the view that ethical codes are relative to the standpoints of the peoples who embrace them.

• Moral relativism

• realist

• anti-realist

______________________________ is the position that there are mind-independent facts about ethics that are true and binding even if we have beliefs to the contrary.

• Anti-realist

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  Moral relativism

• Moral realism

________________________________ relativists argue that because no objective,independent standpoint from which to evaluate ethical codes exists, no culture canjustifiably say that its morality is objectively superior.

• Metaethical

• Descriptive

• Normative

_______________________________ relativism is the position that ethical statements are only true relative to the context that they are spoken.

• Descriptive

• Metaethical

• Normative

_______________________________ relativism says that moral truths are actually only true relative to specific groups of people.

• Normative

• Metaethical

• Descriptive

According to _________________________ relativism, moralities and ethical codes are radically different across cultures.

• Metaethical

• Descriptive

• Normative