Moral Relativism

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783740321

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Foundations for Moral Relativism by J. David Velleman Pdf

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.

Author : Steven Lukes
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847653208

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Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes Pdf

Do we as humans have no shared standards by which we can understand each other? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that wins out? These questions show up everywhere, from the debate over female circumcision to the UN Declaration of Human Rights. They become ever more pressing in an age of mass immigration, religious extremism and the rise of identity politics. So by what right do we judge particular practices as barbaric? Who are the real barbarians? This provocative book takes an enlightening look at what we believe, why we believe it and whether there really is an irreparable moral discord between 'us' and 'them'.

Author : David B Wong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199724849

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Natural Moralities by David B Wong Pdf

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.

Author : Paul K. Moser,Thomas L. Carson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195131304

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Moral Relativism by Paul K. Moser,Thomas L. Carson Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Streiffer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 041593852X

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Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action by Robert Streiffer Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681490182

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A Refutation of Moral Relativism by Peter Kreeft Pdf

No issue is more fateful for civilization than moral relativism. History knows not one example of a successful society which repudiated moral absolutes. Yet most attacks on relativism have been either pragmatic (looking at its social consequences) or exhorting (preaching rather than proving), and philosophers' arguments against it have been specialized, technical, and scholarly. In his typical unique writing style, Peter Kreeft lets an attractive, honest, and funny relativist interview a "Muslim fundamentalist" absolutist so as not to stack the dice personally for absolutism. In an engaging series of personal interviews, every conceivable argument the "sassy Black feminist" reporter Libby gives against absolutism is simply and clearly refuted, and none of the many arguments for moral absolutism is refuted.

Author : Neil Levy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780744544

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Moral Relativism by Neil Levy Pdf

On September 11 2001, thousands of people died in the attacks on the United States. How could the terrorists justify these acts? A young man kills his sister to protect his family's honour. How could this be 'right' These are just some of the questions tackled by Neil Levy in an incisive and elegant guide to the philosophy of moral relativism - the idea that concepts of 'rightness' and 'wrongness' vary from culture to culture, and that there is no such thing as an absolute moral code. Opening with a comprehensive definition of this controversial theory, the book examines all the arguments for and against moral relativism, from its implications for ethics to the role of human biology and the difficulty of separating cultural values from innate behaviour

Author : James Kellenberger
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271039418

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Moral Relativism, Moral Diversity, and Human Relationships by James Kellenberger Pdf

This book aims to clarify the debate between moral relativists and moral absolutists by showing what is right and what is wrong about each of these positions, by revealing how the phenomenon of moral diversity is connected with moral relativism, and by arguing for the importance of relationships between persons as key to reaching a satisfactory understanding of the issues involved in the debate.

Author : Carol Rovane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674726970

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The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism by Carol Rovane Pdf

Relativism is a hotly contested doctrine among philosophers, some of whom regard it as neither true nor false but simply incoherent. As Carol Rovane demonstrates in this analytical tour-de-force, the way to defend relativism is not initially by establishing its truth but by clarifying its content. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism elaborates a doctrine of relativism that has a consistent logical, metaphysical, and practical significance. Relativism is worth debating, Rovane contends, because it bears directly on the moral choices we make in our lives. Three intuitive conceptions of relativism have been influential in philosophical discourse. These include the idea that certain unavoidable disagreements are irresolvable, leading to the conclusion that "both sides are right," and the idea that truth is always relative to context. But the most compelling, Rovane maintains, is the "alternatives intuition." Alternatives are truths that cannot be embraced together because they are not universal. Something other than logical contradiction excludes them. When this is so, logical relations no longer hold among all truth-value-bearers. Some truths will be irreconcilable between individuals even though they are valid in themselves. The practical consequence is that some forms of interpersonal engagement are confined within definite boundaries, and one has no choice but to view what lies beyond those boundaries with what Rovane calls "epistemic indifference." In a very real sense, some people inhabit different worlds--true in themselves, but closed off to belief from those who hold irreducibly incompatible truths.

Author : James Kellenberger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742547736

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Moral Relativism by James Kellenberger Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home, a dazzling new novel already being hailed as an “instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist) After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn’t quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl. Art’s neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster, who has given Christie the reins to her Humanity Project, a bizarre and well-endowed charity fund. Just as mysteriously, no one seems to know where Conner, the Fosters’ handyman, goes after work, but he has become the one person Linnea can confide in, perhaps because his own home life is a war zone: his father has suffered an injury and become addicted to painkillers. As these characters and many more hurtle toward their fates, the Humanity Project is born: Can you indeed pay someone to be good? At what price? Thompson proves herself at the height of her powers in The Humanity Project, crafting emotionally suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining characters, in which we inevitably see ourselves. Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is at once a multifaceted ensemble drama and a deftly observant story of our twenty-first-century society.

Author : Gilbert Harman,Judith Thomson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631192115

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Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity by Gilbert Harman,Judith Thomson Pdf

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.

Author : Jack W. Meiland,Michael Krausz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015003303784

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Relativism, Cognitive and Moral by Jack W. Meiland,Michael Krausz Pdf

Author : David B. Wong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520335028

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Moral Relativity by David B. Wong Pdf

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.

Author : Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231540377

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Relativism and Religion by Carlo Invernizzi Accetti Pdf

Moral relativism is deeply troubling for those who believe that, without a set of moral absolutes, democratic societies will devolve into tyranny or totalitarianism. Engaging directly with this claim, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the roots of contemporary anti-relativist fears to the antimodern rhetoric of the Catholic Church and then rescues a form of philosophical relativism for modern, pluralist societies, arguing that this viewpoint provides the firmest foundation for an allegiance to democracy. In his analyses of the relationship between religious arguments and political authority and the implications of philosophical relativism for democratic theory, Accetti makes a far-ranging contribution to contemporary debates over the revival of religion in politics and the conceptual grounds for a commitment to democracy. He presents the first comprehensive genealogy of anti-relativist discourse and reclaims for English-speaking readers the overlooked work of Hans Kelsen on the connection between relativism and democracy. By engaging with contemporary attempts to replace the religious foundation of democratic values with a neo-Kantian conception of reason, Accetti also makes a powerful case for relativism as the best basis for a civic ethos that integrates different perspectives into democratic politics.

Author : Francis J. Beckwith,Gregory Koukl
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801058066

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Relativism by Francis J. Beckwith,Gregory Koukl Pdf

A critique of moral relativism, the belief that there exists no objective moral standards that apply to every place, person, and time.