Moral Relativism
A Reader
ISBN13: 9780195131307ISBN10: 0195131304
Paperback, 352 pages
Aug 2000,
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: GENERAL ISSUES
1.
Ethical Relativism
,
2.
Facts, Standards, and Truth: A Further Criticism of Relativism
,
3.
The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
,
PART TWO: 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 THREE: ON THE COHERENCE OF MORAL RELATIVISM
9.
Dishonest Relativism
,
10.
Ethical Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence
,
11.
Fear of Relativism
,
PART FOUR: 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 FIVE: RELATIVISM, REALISM, AND RATIONALITY
17.
The Subjectivity of Values
,
18.
Relativism Refuted?
,
19.
Relativism and Normative Nonrealism: Basing Morality on Rationality
,
PART SIX: CASE STUDY ON RELATIVISM
20.
Female Circumcision/Genital Mutilation and Ethical Relativism
,
Bibliography
Index
