ABSTRACT
The problem of ethical relativity has plagued thoughtful men in all ages. Its special prominence in the modern world stems from the current assumption that it is the last word of science on the question of morality. More and more psychologists and social scientists began to look back and protest that they had never really meant what ethical relativity seemed to imply, or else that the sense of ultimate arbitrariness was a product of early scientific results superseded. Naturalistic and materialistic philosophies began to disown any kinship with ethical relativity. There is a need for a systematic inquiry into ethical relativity. One basic strand in the fabric of ethical relativity is the discovery that morality is a human product. Ethical relativity is one of the theories of ethics that accepts and even welcomes this discovery. Greek philosophy tended to line up in opposing camps on the question of ethical relativity.
