Question

The values guiding Wallace Souza’s work as a news reporter in remote Brazil—especially the kinds of images judged appropriate for TV there—are quite different from those guiding TV reporting in the United States. Why does Nietzsche believe this kind of cultural clash is a reason to subscribe to the eternal return and simultaneously abandon traditional ethical theories, which attempt to pertain universally?

Answer 1

Cultural relativism is the reason why values that are deemed appropriate in Brazil are not deemed appropriate in other cultures. Nietzsche believed in cultural relativism. He stated that moral values are valid or invalid relative to a certain culture and that there are no shared universal moral values. He asserts that moral values from other cultures are not wrong because they are different from ours. This cancels the idea that moral and values are universal. Nietzsche believed that morality does not exist. the only way that we should live is based on eternal return.