Study Questions

Rachel's Cultural Relativism

1.) What is Metaethical Moral Objectivism or universalism?

2.) What is Descriptive Cultural Relativism?

3.) What is Metaethical Moral Relativism and how does it differ from Descriptive Cultural Relativism?

4.) What is Normative Moral Relativism and how does it differ from both Descriptive Cultural Relativism and Metaethical Moral Relativism?

5.) What is Moral Skepticism and how does it differ from Metaethical Moral Relativism? 

6.) How might one argue from Descriptive Cultural Relativism to Metaethical Moral Relativism or Normative Moral Relativism?

7.) What is Rachel's argument that differences in moral codes are not indicative of differences in moral values, and how does it undermine the moral relativist's argument?

8.) What is Rachel's second argument against the moral relativist?