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Abstract:
Ethical relativism is one of the most important issues of ethical philosophy meaning that the values and ethical judgments are not stable. This issue is such important that an individual's approach and position concerning relativism or non-relativism of ethical values significantly effects on the viewpoints, worldview and legal and social conditions of other people. Our goal is to provide a clear explanation of relativism and especially its reasons as well as to examine them. In this study, we have examined different types of relativism. In descriptive relativism, we pointed out that such type of relativism would not judge the accuracy or inaccuracy of ethical values and therefore, discussing on examination of relativism reasons was useless. In normative relativism, we mentioned that their main reasons were based on cultural differences, diversity of moral viewpoints and lack of ethical values. In this regard, we have shown that values exist and that cultural differences and diversity of ethical viewpoints are not proofs to relativity. We also showed in Meta ethical relativism that such type of relativism has proved Meta ethical relativism by using descriptive relativism and denial of ethical values and certainty of translation. To criticize these reasons, we showed that ethical values exist and that ethical relativism may not be considered as a proof to the Meta ethical relativity. Research method in this paper is of descriptive and analytical type.

Keywords: ethics, relativism, meta ethical relativism, descriptive ethical relativism, normative relativism, ethical absolutism.

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