Key terms

• Metaethics: a branch of analytic philosophy that explores status, foundations and scope of moral values, properties and words.
• Moral relativism: the belief that morality is relative to culture.
• Moral Realism: Belief that there are moral facts, in the same way that there are scientific facts (True or false). However, searching for a foundation is complex
• Moral antirealism: The view that moral statements are not true or false.
• Universalism: The belief that some things are universally right/wrong regardless of time or place.
• Ethnocentrism: A tendency to judge other cultures by one's own cultural standards.
• Cultural Relativism: The idea that what is considered good or bad varies from one society to another.