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" Moral relativism : "
edited by Paul K. Moser, Thomas L. Carson.
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BL
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581233
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b410452
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Moral relativism : : a reader /\ edited by Paul K. Moser, Thomas L. Carson.
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New York, NY :: Oxford University Press,, 2001.
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ix, 337 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0195131290 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780195131291 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0195131304 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780195131307 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-332) and index.
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| Contents
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PART ONE: GENERAL ISSUES: Ethical relativism / Richard Brandt -- Facts, standards, and truth: a further criticism of relativism / Karl Popper -- The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- PART TWO: RELATIVISM AND MORAL DIVERSITY: Folkways / William Graham Sumner -- Anthropology and the abnormal / Ruth Benedict -- The meaning of right / W.D. Ross -- The empirical underdetermination of descriptive cultural relativism / Michele Moody-Adams -- The ethical implications of cultural relativity / Carl Wellman -- PART THREE: ON THE COHERENCE OF MORAL RELATIVISM: Dishonest relativism / Betsy Postow -- Ethical relativism and the problem of incoherence / David Lyons -- Fear of relativism / T.M. Scanlon -- PART FOUR: DEFENSE AND CRITICISM: Is there a single true morality? / Gilbert Harman -- Moral relativism / Philippa Foot -- Non-relativise virtues / Martha Nussbaum -- Tolerance, pluralism, and relativism / Gordon Graham -- Ethics / Thomas Nagel -- PART FIVE: RELATIVISM, REALISM, AND RATIONALITY: The subjectivity of values / J.L. Mackie -- Relativism refuted? / Richard Brandt -- Relativism and normative nonrealism: basing morality on rationality / Thomas L. Carson and Paul K. Moser -- PART SIX: CASE STUDY ON RELATIVISM: Female circumcision/genital mutilation and ethical relativism / Loretta M. Kopelman.
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Ethical relativism.
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BJ37.M8185 2001
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Moser, Paul K.,1957-
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Carson, Thomas L.,1950-
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