{"id":659,"date":"2025-03-13T18:56:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/chapter\/4-8-chapter-glossary\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:22:49","slug":"4-8-chapter-glossary","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/ppscphi1012ethics\/chapter\/4-8-chapter-glossary\/","title":{"raw":"4.5 Chapter Glossary","rendered":"4.5 Chapter Glossary"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"4.8-chapter-glossary\">\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Argument from Diversity<\/strong> - A defense of relativism that argues that because people have different views about right and wrong, therefore, there are no universal moral standards.<\/p>\r\n<strong>Argument from Learning<\/strong> - The defense of relativism that suggests that because we learn our moral values from our cultural environment, morality must be relative to culture.\r\n\r\n<strong>Argument from Tolerance<\/strong> - A defense of relativism that is based on the idea that people mean different things when they use moral terms.\r\n\r\n<strong>Cultural Relativism<\/strong> - The position that all moral rules are derived from culture.\r\n\r\n<strong>Descriptive Relativism<\/strong> - The idea that there are fundamental disagreements about morality between cultures and individuals that are pervasive and cannot be resolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Moral Anti-Realism<\/strong> - A meta-ethical doctrine that denies the existence of objective moral values or normative facts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Moral Realism<\/strong> - The idea that there are moral facts that exist independently of the human mind and that people can make true or false statements about them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Normative Realism<\/strong> - A theory that claims that there are no universal moral principles and that the rightness or wrongness of actions varies from society to society.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"4.8-chapter-glossary\">\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Argument from Diversity<\/strong> &#8211; 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