Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy
by Michele M. Moody-Adams
Category: Philosophy

The persistence of deep moral disagreements has created widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Michele Moody-Adams scrutinizes the anthropological evidence commonly used to support moral relativism, and finds that the internal complexity of cultures will always thwart efforts to confine moral judgments to a single culture.