Moral Relativity

Author : David B. Wong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520335023
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moral Relativity written by David B. Wong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Author : Paul K. Moser
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195131307
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moral Relativism written by Paul K. Moser and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted solely to the topic of moral relativism. The 19 contemporary selections are nontechnical and fall under five main headings which include general issues of moral relativism, moral diversity, the coherence of moral relativism, and relativism, realism, and rationality.

Author : David B Wong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199724849
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Natural Moralities written by David B Wong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, David B. Wong defends an ambitious and important new version of moral relativism. He does not espouse the type of relativism that says anything goes, but he does start with a relativist stance against alternative theories such that there need not be only one universal truth. Wong proposes that there can be a plurality of true moralities existing across different traditions and cultures, all with one core human question as to how we can all live together.

Author : Robert Streiffer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000080250
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action written by Robert Streiffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2003, this book examines moral relativism and the author discusses the main arguments for Appraiser Relativism and Agent Relativism. The final chapter of the book discusses the implication of some recent developments in metaethics and develops a theory of reasons for action based on the way in which an action can be good as an alternative to the desire-based, agent-centred account critiqued in the earlier chapters.

Author : Gilbert Harman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631192114
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity written by Gilbert Harman and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-01-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do moral questions have objective answers? In this great debate, Gilbert Harman explains and argues for relativism, emotivism, and moral scepticism. In his view, moral disagreements are like disagreements about what to pay for a house; there are no correct answers ahead of time, except in relation to one or another moral framework. Independently, Judith Jarvis Thomson examines what she takes to be the case against moral objectivity, and rejects it; she argues that it is possible to find out the correct answers to some moral questions. In her view, some moral disagreements are like disagreements about whether the house has a ghost. Harman and Thomson then reply to each other. This important, lively accessible exchange will be invaluable to all students of moral theory and meta-ethics.

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740329
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Foundations for Moral Relativism written by J. David Velleman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding. At the same time, he explains why the mores of different communities, even when incompatible, are still variations on the same moral themes. The book thus maps out a universe of many moral worlds without, as Velleman puts it, "moral black holes”. The six self-standing chapters discuss such diverse topics as online avatars and virtual worlds, lying in Russian and truth-telling in Quechua, the pleasure of solitude and the fear of absurdity. Accessibly written, this book presupposes no prior training in philosophy.

Author : Steven Lukes
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847653200
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moral Relativism written by Steven Lukes and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we as humans have no shared standards by which we can understand each other? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that wins out? These questions show up everywhere, from the debate over female circumcision to the UN Declaration of Human Rights. They become ever more pressing in an age of mass immigration, religious extremism and the rise of identity politics. So by what right do we judge particular practices as barbaric? Who are the real barbarians? This provocative book takes an enlightening look at what we believe, why we believe it and whether there really is an irreparable moral discord between 'us' and 'them'.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681490188
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A Refutation of Moral Relativism written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No issue is more fateful for civilization than moral relativism. History knows not one example of a successful society which repudiated moral absolutes. Yet most attacks on relativism have been either pragmatic (looking at its social consequences) or exhorting (preaching rather than proving), and philosophers' arguments against it have been specialized, technical, and scholarly. In his typical unique writing style, Peter Kreeft lets an attractive, honest, and funny relativist interview a "Muslim fundamentalist" absolutist so as not to stack the dice personally for absolutism. In an engaging series of personal interviews, every conceivable argument the "sassy Black feminist" reporter Libby gives against absolutism is simply and clearly refuted, and none of the many arguments for moral absolutism is refuted.

Author : Edward Westermarck
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ethical Relativity written by Edward Westermarck and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Edward Westermarck grounds ethics in the biological underpinnings of emotion and makes arguments for both psychological and ethical relativism. According to Westermarck, conventional moral judgments are based on moral sentiments, which are neutral moral feelings. Because moral standards are rooted in emotion, Westermarck concludes that they cannot be objective.

Author : Neil Levy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780744544
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Moral Relativism written by Neil Levy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11 2001, thousands of people died in the attacks on the United States. How could the terrorists justify these acts? A young man kills his sister to protect his family's honour. How could this be 'right' These are just some of the questions tackled by Neil Levy in an incisive and elegant guide to the philosophy of moral relativism - the idea that concepts of 'rightness' and 'wrongness' vary from culture to culture, and that there is no such thing as an absolute moral code. Opening with a comprehensive definition of this controversial theory, the book examines all the arguments for and against moral relativism, from its implications for ethics to the role of human biology and the difficulty of separating cultural values from innate behaviour