/lit/ - Literature

Cultural and moral relativism are self-contradictory.

If cultural relativism is true, then you should act according to your culture's accepted morals, because there's nothing outside that. That itself is a universal "always do what you culture tells you to do."

Kant and Mill are wrong, but we don't and shouldn't succumb to moral relativism or nihilism just because we can't formulate rules to guide ethical action.

Return to Aristotle and realize that ethics is about having virtuous character traits, not about following rules and applying formulas.