ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses that the instrumental judgments promote moral relativism and moral absolutism, and that moral relativism cannot be a defense against absolutism, and can turn into it. It explores how situatedness of instrumentalism is part of relativism and concludes the Marxism. Place's loomlike quality can explain how it helps twist virtues such as truth, justice, and natural to conform to the self-interest. In postmodernism the situatedness usually refers to the unique character of different places. Variants of emotivism and morality as mores or custom can apply to larger-scale places and contexts, and fill in the intermediate range of instrumental continuum. Communitarians, too, consider what is good and bad in terms of one's duties and obligations in the context of living a human life, but this time in the modern world. Postmodernism seems to argue that morality is not only situated at all levels, from the individual to the group, but that this applies also to the claims of communitarianism.
