Title: Moral relativism : a reader /
Authors: Moser, Paul K., 1957-; Carson, Thomas L., 1950-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Relativisme moral.; Ethical relativism.; Relativisme.; Ethische aspecten.
Contents: PART ONE: GENERAL ISSUES: Ethical relativism / Richard Brandt -- Facts, standards, and truth: a further criticism of relativism / Karl Popper -- The challenge of cultural relativism / James Rachels -- PART TWO: RELATIVISM AND MORAL DIVERSITY: Folkways / William Graham Sumner -- Anthropology and the abnormal / Ruth Benedict -- The meaning of right / W.D. Ross -- The empirical underdetermination of descriptive cultural relativism / Michele Moody-Adams -- The ethical implications of cultural relativity / Carl Wellman -- PART THREE: ON THE COHERENCE OF MORAL RELATIVISM: Dishonest relativism / Betsy Postow -- Ethical relativism and the problem of incoherence / David Lyons -- Fear of relativism / T.M. Scanlon -- PART FOUR: DEFENSE AND CRITICISM: Is there a single true morality? / Gilbert Harman -- Moral relativism / Philippa Foot -- Non-relativise virtues / Martha Nussbaum -- Tolerance, pluralism, and relativism / Gordon Graham -- Ethics / Thomas Nagel -- PART FIVE: RELATIVISM, REALISM, AND RATIONALITY: The subjectivity of values / J.L. Mackie -- Relativism refuted? / Richard Brandt -- Relativism and normative nonrealism: basing morality on rationality / Thomas L. Carson and Paul K. Moser -- PART SIX: CASE STUDY ON RELATIVISM: Female circumcision/genital mutilation and ethical relativism / Loretta M. Kopelman.