Are morals relative?

Think 5 (14):23-26 (2007)
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The question of the existence (or otherwise) of has been debated for thousands of years. The position that there are no such truths comes in several varieties. In this, the first of two consecutive articles by Alchin, we hear a debate on the most common form of relativism: moral relativism.

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