RayQuan Nielly
Dr. Sarah Malanowski
PHI 2010
2 December 2019
Morality Final
There are no moral truths but there is morality that is relative to individuals and/or
cultures due to ethical subjectivism and cultural relativism. According to Rachels, he claims “that
if there were an objective moral truth, then everyone would know it.” Knowing what Rachels
said there is no doubt in my mind that there are no true moral truths. Certain people live their
lives by claiming that they are an ethical subjectivist and that is a prime example of how people
choose to believe in a morality that is relative to to themselves or their cultures. People are raised
different in places all around the world and with those different forms of raising comes the
different forms of morals. One of the issues that come up with subjectivism is that what one
person or group of persons find right, another might find that wrong and believe that their own
moral beliefs are correct. Thanks to the Greek historian Herodotus he brought this fact to the
light by saying “For if anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from
amongst all the nations of the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably,
after careful consideration of their relative merits, choose that of his own country. Everyone
without exception believes his own native customs… to be the best.” To sum that up Herodotus
is basically saying that it is known that when a person is given the responsibility to choose one
nations belief that person will nine times out of ten choose their own nation. W