Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong (Biblia.com)

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Ideas have consequences. And sometimes those ideas can be squeezed in to slogans, slapped on bumper stickers and tweeted into cyberspace. These compact messages coming at us from all directions often compress in a few words entire ethical systems. It turns out that there's a lot more to the ideas behind these slogans--ideas that need to be sorted out before we make important moral decisions as...

What are we to make of such diversity in ethical issues? Cultural relativism claims to have the answer to this. Diversity means that there are no absolute standards for moral judgment. Any standard for determining right and wrong is relative. Ethical relativism, the belief that there is no moral truth that applies to all people at all times,1 has been around for a long time. The early Greek philosopher Protagoras opened his book On Truth with the words “Man is the measure of all

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