Moral relativism and pluralism /
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| Author / Creator: | Wong, David B., author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023. ©2023 |
| Description: | 71 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in ethics Cambridge elements. Elements in ethics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13150049 |
Table of Contents:
- Why are people so exercised about moral relativism?
- How should theses about moral relativism be framed?
- Relationship and community, autonomy and rights
- Epistemic reasons to delve further into the conflict between relationship-centered and rights-centered moralities
- An ethical argument for extended inquiry into rivals to one's own ethical views
- Overcoming stereotypes of relationship-centered moralities
- Complicating the contrast between relationship and autonomy -centered moralities
- The underdiscussed question of what morality is
- A naturalistic approach to understanding why human beings have moralities
- Putting together moral ambivalence and a naturalistic conception of morality
- Constraints on the range of viable moralities
- The social construction of morality: by the individual or group?
- When people differ in their moral beliefs about an issue, when do they actually disagree?
- Why we have different beliefs in metaethics
- How moral reasons enter into the truth conditions of moral judgments help shape our moral motivations
- Summary of the argument for a pluralistic form of metaethical moral relativism
- Confused reasoning that is sometimes attributed to those who believe in normative moral relativism
- An argument for normative moral relativism that is contingent upon the acceptance of certain values and the adoption of metaethical moral relativism
- Why normative moral relativism cannot be a simple matter of letting others be
- What is female genital cutting?
- Accommodation and the fraught issue of abortion
- Undermining stereotypes of the other side
- Fostering pluralistic encounters
- Summary of normative moral relativism.
