Arguments About Contemporary Moral Relativism

Moral Relativism, as a topic full of discussion in contemporary academia iscontinuously argued in different forms of supporting and against. However, is itabsolute or relatively on earth of moral standard? Is there a universal moral standard?Whether it will go to the end of the discussions and arguments focus on MoralRelativity? Before giving answers to these questions it is necessary to comb theprocess of it’s development from the perspective of history and know the basic viewsof the two parties. The supporting part holds the view that moral owning the qualityof variety, otherness and uncertainty is inconsistent with the quality of universal whilethe rebutter says that the relativity of moral is a quality of universal from a deeper andwider level, which can express itself from the respects of availability and legitimacy.The supporting part points out that the quality of relativity gives the best explanationfor “forgiving principle” while the rebutter says this principle will destroy MoralRelativity at last. From their arguments we can know that Moral Relativity isreasonable as well as limited in different aspects, and because of differentenhancement in different aspects the argument emerged out continuously. And thepopulation of Moral Relativity and arguments about it in nowadays bring moral crisisin our true life, which lead to the generation of some ideal solutions such as virtueseeking, sensible dialogue and citizen moral teaching etc. In nowadays full of moralcrisis it is obviously that moral philosophy is prefer Value Pluralism to criticizing ofMoral Relativity. But what can we do to avoid Moral Relativity when we choose theway of pluralism. This is a big problem leaving for contemporary Moral Philosophy.Through the above research, we can gradually understand the true essence of moraland the development direction of Moral Relativity even contemporary MoralPhilosophy, which can offered great help for the moral construction in our country.