Cultural Relativism Morality
Falsehood to say that certain societies are morally more upright than others is an error. The reason is that moral beliefs and values are culturally influenced. This means they can be shaped by their cultural background and not in an unalterable form. (Haidt 2002). Because the moral beliefs and standards of one culture may differ from another, something that might be considered to be moral in one country may not apply in another. A moral psychological model supporting this idea is the cultural relativism approach, in which moral ideas and behaviours are determined by cultural influences and are not built on universal principles. The model emphasizes the importance of understanding and accepting different cultures and the context in which they occur. It also highlights the need to consider the cultural context within which moral beliefs or behaviors are formed (Shweder 2019, Cont…