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Author / Creator:Cook, John W. (John Webber), 1930-
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (x, 204 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11107655
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ISBN:0585219060
9780585219066
0195126793
9780195126792
9786610471898
6610471894
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-199) and index.
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Summary:Carefully examining the arguments for and against moral relativism, Cook exposes not only that anthropologists have failed in their attempt to support relativism with evidence of cultural differences, but that moral absolutists have been equally unsuccessful in their attempts to refute it. He argues that these conflicting positions are both guilty of an artificial and unrealistic view of morality. Cook undertakes to show that a more subtle and complex account of morality reveals that moral relativism and moral absolutism must both be rejected. A pathbreaking book, Morality and Cultural Differences deftly illustrates how philosophy, when patiently pursued, can be relevant to our everyday concerns. This accessible and cogent work is an ideal text for beginning and advanced students of ethics, philosophy, and anthropology. Anyone interested in the debate surrounding cultural relativism will find it to be engaging reading.
Other form:Print version: Cook, John W. (John Webber), 1930- Morality and cultural differences. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195126793
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505 0 |a Introduction -- I. The claims of moral relativism ; 1. Moral relativism versus moral absolutism ; 2. Moral relativism: A statement of the doctrine ; 3. Further misconceptions about moral relativism ; 4. The paradoxes of relativism -- II. Anthropology and moral relativism ; 5. The history of relativism in anthropology ; 6. Boas's criticisms of cultural evolutionism ; 7. Boas's methodological insights ; 8. Relativism and ethnocentrism ; 9. Is there evidence supporting moral relativism ; 10. Some obvious instances of the projection error ; 11. The projection error as a source of moral relativism ; 12. Pulling the strands together -- III. Philosophy and moral relativism ; 13. Westermarck's concession and the philosophical argument for moral relativism ; 14. A preliminary assessment of the philosophical argument ; 15. What is morality? ; 16. Problems in the philosophical description of morality ; 17. Enculturative conditioning ; 18. Islandia and despond ; 19. A final look at the relativist's argument ; 20. Our relation to other cultures -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index. 
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