Question: Kindly answer and use simple word ASSESSMENT Given Name: M.I.: Sumame Course/Year/Section Student Number Subject: SOCSCI_212 Chapter: CHAPTER 6: CULTURAL ETHICS RELATIVISM Assessment Questions: Part

Kindly answer and use simple word

ASSESSMENT Given Name: M.I.: Sumame Course/Year/Section Student Number Subject: SOCSCI_212 Chapter: CHAPTER 6: CULTURAL ETHICS RELATIVISM Assessment Questions: Part 1. Give your personal comment about the situations below (Reference: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism by JAMES RACHELS retrieved from https://faculty.uca.edu/rnovy/Rachels--Cultural%20Relativism.htm) 1. Darius, a king of ancient Persia, was intrigued by the variety of cultures he encountered in his travels. He had found, for example, that the Callatians (a tribe of Indians) customarily ate the bodies of their dead fathers. The Greeks, of course, did not do that the Greeks practiced cremation and regarded the funeral pyre as the natural and fitting way to dispose of the dead. Darius thought that a sophisticated understanding of the world must include an appreciation of such differences between cultures. One day, to teach this lesson, he summoned some Greeks who happened to be present at his court and asked them what they would take to eat the bodies of their dead fathers. They were shocked, as Darius knew they would be, and replied that no amount of money could persuade them to do such a thing. Then Darius called in some Callatians, and while the Greeks listened asked them what they would take to burn their dead fathers' bodies. The Callatians were horrified and told Darius not even to mention such a dreadful thing. Are the practices of the Greeks (cremation) and Callatians (eating the body of their dead father) acceptable to you? Why? 2. Eskimos customs turned out to be very different from our own. The men often had more than one wife, and they would share their wives with guests, lending them for the night as a sign of hospitality. Moreover, within a community, a dominant male might demand and get regular sexual access to other men's wives. The women, however, were free to break these arrangements simply by leaving their husbands and taking up with new partners free, that is, so long as their former husbands chose not to make trouble. All in all, the Eskimo practice was a volatile scheme that bore little resemblance to what we call marriage. Are the Eskimos immoral because of their sexual practice? State your argument, whether you agree or not. Part II. Essay, Make your argument on the statement below. 1. It is important to have a universal standard of morality, e.g. the Ten Commandments, where all peoples have to abide

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