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Originally posted by [Labret]
Well then I just wasted 8 years of my life and have two worthless degrees based upon its very foundations.
http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/et/et-01-00.htm
I think you need to re-read. Its common fucking sense.
As a theory, rejected? Absurd, utterly fucking absurd.
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The theory as a whole has been rejected by 90% of the scientific community.
The strongest modern defenses of it date from the first half of the 20th century (Sumner, 1906 and Benedict, 1946), but later publications give a more recent image of it's current status (Nielsen, 1966, Nagel, 1997, Harman & Jarvis, 1996, for example. Other things worth reading are Ethical Relativism, 1973 and Relativism: Cognitive and Moral, 1982).
Admittedly, cultural relativism has made a huge impact and has had major influence, but as a whole, it's unfortunately not exactly widely accepted.