Cultural relativism is the stance that moral proposals do not reflect objective and/or universal truths but instead make …show more content…
In its simplest term, objective morality states that there are universal truths that create an acknowledged basis to separate the right from the wrong. Hence, for an objectivist it is clear that the action performed by the king and his tribe is completely immoral and wrong. So the question that challenges a cultural relativist is: when an individual does something wrong by the perspective of a cultural relativist, does that make it ok with the latter even though it is acceptable in the culture of the former individual? Of course not, because while although a cultural relativist could no longer say that the traditions of another society is inferior to his own, he would still nonetheless have his own cultures and morals to reflect upon. It is in the fact that he acknowledges that the other individual is wrong when he reflects the action on his own culture is when he automatically invokes a universal standard that applies to both their