Moral relativism : a reader /
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | ix, 337 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5718940 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. General Issues
- 1. Ethical Relativism
- 2. Facts, Standards, and Truth: A Further Criticism of Relativism
- 3. The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
- Part 2. Relativism and Moral Diversity
- 4. Folkways
- 5. Anthropology and the Abnormal
- 6. The Meaning of Right
- 7. The Empirical Underdetermination of Descriptive Cultural Relativism
- 8. The Ethical Implications of Cultural Relativity
- Part 3. On the Coherence of Moral Relativism
- 9. Dishonest Relativism
- 10. Ethical Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence
- 11. Fear of Relativism
- Part 4. Defense and Criticism
- 12. Is There a Single True Morality?
- 13. Moral Relativism
- 14. Non-Relative Virtues
- 15. Tolerance, Pluralism, and Relativism
- 16. Ethics
- Part 5. Relativism, Realism, and Rationality
- 17. The Subjectivity of Values
- 18. Relativism Refuted?
- 19. Relativism and Normative Nonrealism: Basing Morality on Rationality
- Part 6. Case Study on Relativism
- 20. Female Circumcision/Genital Mutilation and Ethical Relativism
- Bibliography
- Index