Moral Relativity
Title | Moral Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Wong |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0520335023 |
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.
Moral Relativism
Title | Moral Relativism PDF eBook |
Author | Paul K. Moser |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780195131307 |
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.
Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity
Title | Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Harman |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1996-01-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780631192114 |
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.
Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action
Title | Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Streiffer |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 142 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780415938525 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Natural Moralities
Title | Natural Moralities PDF eBook |
Author | David B Wong |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2009-03-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199724840 |
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.
Foundations for Moral Relativism
Title | Foundations for Moral Relativism PDF eBook |
Author | J. David Velleman |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 2015-11-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1783740329 |
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.
Moral Relativity
Title | Moral Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | David B. Wong |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2022-08-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0520371836 |
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.