Reflection, On The Basis Of Western Relativism And Moral Education Of View

As a trend of thought, relativism has a long history. The existence of this trend of thought on one hand promotes the development of the diversity of human cultures; on the other hand, it may result in some kind of moral crisis. In the field of education, it shows as moral relativism, affecting young men still in school hugely. They lose themselves when they face moral choice, as they think they can do this as well as do that.This article aims to study the moral education of relativism from the perspective of cultural anthropology, including the emergence of this kind of moral education and its marked effects, as well as its disadvantages. In my article I analyzed and criticized the strategies of "removing moral" and "purifying value", discussing the theory of moral relativism of education from the angle of anthropology, in the foundation I raised the ask of moral education, namely we should be after for a common view of morality between different cultures and some kind of moral criterion which exists generally when we protect the relativity of culture and moral.The article consists of three parts. In the first part I described the reality background and theory basis of the education of moral relativism in west countries. The diversity of culture in society at that time contributed to the flourishing of the thought, and the fundamental theory basis is moral relativism. In this article I explained moral relativism in the perspective of anthropology mainly. At the same time I represented the achievements of this thought in education, as mentioned in the second paragraph, the strategies of "removing moral" and "purifying value". With affirming them I criticized them.The second part was analyzing the theory of the moral relativism of education in cultural anthropology of North America angle. Initially, the anthropologists emphasized that the culture as well as the moral was absolutely relative in different societies. However, they changed their point of view ceaselessly as they did field work and reflected the thought of relativism; they began to confirm that there existed some kind of universality. Moreover, at the end of the paragraph I described the moral criterion to abandon "the bad" of Robert Edgerton, who is an anthropologist. This can provide some inspiration to our moral education in school.In the last part of my article, I discussed the pursuit of the common view of morality, pointing out that the diversity of culture of our human being was very significant. We should value this kind of diversity, to appreciate other's culture and moral concepts with the sight of relativism, meanwhile to make our world more harmony and healthier, we indeed need to make great efforts to seek for the tower of Babel, to seek for some kind of moral criterion that exists generally.