Pojman Ethical Relativism

Ethical Relativism is the belief that nothing is objectively right or wrong and that the meaning of what is right and wrong depends on the individual and culture. Pojman breaks down Ethical Relativism into 2 main concepts: The Diversity Theory and the Dependency Theory. The Diversity Theory addresses the concept of what is morally right and wrong varies from society to society; therefore, there is no universal moral principles that all societies accept. For example, Homosexuality in the Middle East is a forbidden practice, while in ancient Greek culture, it was said to be a accepted practice. The Dependency Theory says that all moral principles receive their validity from cultural acceptance. For example, in America, having more than one spouse
Ethical Relativism leads to absurd consequences because it is asking us to turn a blind eye as to what is going between another culture. Ethical Relativism believes that one culture should be tolerant of another culture's different morality choices, because the mass majority of that society believes it was morally right. Pojman brings up, that if this concept is true, then that means that the most heinous crimes such as the Holocaust, is morally right, because the majority of the Germany society believe it was the right thing to do. If we were to follow the beliefs of Ethical Relativism, that would mean that during the Holocaust,we would have no right to step forward. But Podjman was not the only one to oppose against Ethical Relativism. Mary Midgley argues that ethical relativism agrees to the truth's of moral isolationism. Moral Isolationism is the view that one society should not worry about what is going on outside of their immediate