ARE MORAL STANDARDS “RELATIVE”? Ethics are moral principles or values that specify acceptable conduct, and determine how an institution will be governed. According to Shanahan and Wang, in their book Reason and Insight, the subject of ethics is morality, which is concerned with the practices, judgments, principles, and beliefs that guide people’s actions. It attempts to address the issue of how we ought to live. Many people have different values that guide their lives, …showed first 75 words of 1046 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1046 total…would be in danger of starvation at times if they kept every baby girl. The young boys are not sacrificed because they are needed to hunt and provide for the rest of the tribe when they grow older. In this way, the perceived differences in culture may not be as different as they seem on the surface. Just because cultures have different practices, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have common ethical principles.