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ethical relativism  

Definition

  • The idea that morality is entirely dependent on a specific time and place. Ethical relativism is perhaps the most controversial (and forcefully repudiated) position in all philosophy. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Ethical Relativism]

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