Moral Relativism

Preface Introduciton I. GENERAL ISSUES 1. Richard Brandt, 2. Karl Popper, Facts, Standards, and Truth: A Further Criticism of 3. James Rachels, The Challenge of Cultural II. RELATIVISM AND MORAL DIVERSITY 4. William Graham Sumner, Folkways 5. Ruth Benedict, Anthropology and the Abnormal 6. W.D. Ross, The Meaning of Right 7. Michele Moody-Adams, The Empirical Underdetermination of Descriptive Cultural 8. Carl Wellman, The Ethical Implications of Cultural Relativity III. ON THE COHERENCE OF MORAL RELATIVISM 9. Betsy Postow, Dishonest 10. David Lyons, and the Problem of Incoherence 11. T.M. Scanlon, Fear of IV. DEFENCE AND CRITICISM 12. Gilbert Harman, Is There a Single True 13. Philippa Foot, Moral 14. Martha Nussbaum, Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach 15. Gordon Graham, Tolerance, Pluralism, and 16. Thomas Nagel, Ethics V. RELATIVISM, REALISM, AND RATIONALITY 17. J.L. Mackie, The Subjectivity of Values 18. Richard Brandt, Relativism Refuted? 19. Thomas Carson and Paul Moser, Relativism and Normative Nonrealism: Basing Morality on Rationality Bibliography

Cultural relativism · Moral realism · Moral relativism · Pluralism · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Ethical relativism · Ethische aspecten · Relativisme · Relativisme moral