Ch. 19: What does it mean to say that an ethical standard is objective? In what ways do ethical relativists deny the objectivity of ethics, and why do you think they do so? Is morality objective? Defend your answer.
Ch. 19: What is moral progress? Why is moral progress impossible if ethical relativism is true? How serious of a problem is this for the theory?
Textbook Shafer-Landau, Russ. The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems. 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 2017.
