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Question

what relativist means not in a dictionary copy n paste kind of way but just explain it normally please

its in terms of situation ethics being relativist

thanks

Answer 1

Relativism is the view that judgments about truth and falsity, good and bad, right and wrong are relative to the individual person or culture. Different people have different opinions about what’s true but no one can be said to be absolutely right or wrong; rather, everyone is correct. Relativism denies that there can be any objectivity in matters of truth or morality.


So for example, I say that the death penalty is wrong, and you say it is right. Well, who is to say which one of us is correct? Is there even a correct answer? What is right to me might not be right to you. Basically, there can be no opinion proven to be right or wrong based on matters of the heart. Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Being a relativist means that everything you believe in is based on something else. For example, the belief that if you cross the street without looking, you might get hit by a car. If you live in Manhattan, this belief is based relatively on the fact that there are tons of cars, and yes, your odds of getting hit are great. If you live in the middle of a Kansas corn field, and the road you live on is only traveled by you, you might not hesitate to cross without looking, because no cars ever come down your road. So the belief that you might get hit by a car if you don't look before you cross the road is relative.

As far as ethics go, think of this way. You are raised with the belief that it is wrong to kill for any reason. Our whole cultural paradigm enforces this. But what if you lived as an Aztec in the 15th century? Relatively speaking, human sacrifice (what we now call murder) was not only accepted, but may have been considered an honor. Now you must ask yourself, which is more ethical, the Aztec's behavior, or ours, now in this time? If you are a relativist, your answer is neither one, as both are based in the beliefs of the time.

Make sense?

Answer 3

In my view, situation ethics are the only honest ethics.

The use of the term 'relativist' to situation ethics means that a person applies their ethics 'relative' to the situation.

An example of this comes from a concentration camp in WW2. A guard promised to help a woman and her husband escape if the guard could have unprotected sex with her. As a married woman, under normal circumstances,she would not have had sex with this man, but she did in this case (situation) and became pregnant.

They were helped to escape and she had the baby. She and her husband loved the baby as their own, because it was the reason for their being alive instead of being gassed.

Her ethics allowed her to have sex with the guard because it was rational and correct relative to the situation.

Answer 4

A relativist is someone who believes in the idea that concepts like truth and moral values are not absolute but are "relative" to the person or the group holding them. For instance: the Mafia has a different set of moral values than the average person and those values are relative. They don't feel that murder is wrong but they do feel that family honor must always be maintained. Those moral values are relative to their group.

Answer 5

If I understand what you're asking...situation ethics is relativist because it's NOT black or white. Ethics is usually a personal view of how things are "right." Situation Ethics is relativist BECAUSE it will always depend on the situation...there's no definite pat answer.

Answer 6

Relativism is various theories about a situation each of which claim that some element or aspect of experience or culture is dependent on some other element or aspect.

Situational ethics is about loving other people and treating them how you want to be treated yourself. It means that reason is the basis of moral judgements. Moral decisions are hypothetical, because they depend on what the most loving thing to do is - and everyone has a different opinion about that based on their experience or culture etc (therefore relativist).

Answer 7

it means it all depends on the outcome of whatever you are trying to do or thinking of doing in situation ethics you have to do the most loving thing if you are a relativist you do what you think is right.

Answer 8

With a relativist, what is good and bad is depended upon the situation. There is no definite right or wrong. A person makes their own choices as to right and wrong according to what is necessary to accomplish their aims or to "get by". You are right when you say it is "situational ethics".

Answer 9

It's in the dictionary under

RELATIVISM: the docterine that knowledge, truth, morality, etc., are relative and not absolute. Relativist person who studies relativism

English Oxford Dictionary page 1160

Answer 10

It means something that may not be right, the truth or proper, but is considered morally right to the person/s believing or holding the same beliefs. These people all have the same system of moral values and truths in common with each other.