The Role of Relativism in Moral Judgments

People have this feeling that they've retained some use of moral vocabulary, but are somehow relativizing it to their background convictions. "What they've done is bleached it off all moral or normative content," he says. If you say slavery was morally permissible in 18th century England, amelie describing a fact about how people behaved? Well, that seems right, doesn't it? I mean, we'd have to say that if we're doing a correct history.