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Cultural pluralism and moral knowledge / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.

Title
Cultural pluralism and moral knowledge / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Paul, Ellen Frankel
  • Miller, Fred Dycus, 1944-
  • Paul, Jeffrey
Description
xiii, 285 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
The essays in "Cultural Pluralism and Moral Knowledge" deal with philosophical issues that arise from the existence of a diversity of cultural traditions.
Subject
  • Cultural pluralism > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Ethics
  • Social sciences and ethics
  • Cultural Diversity
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Explaining moral variety / Chandran Kukathas -- Is cultural pluralism relevant to moral knowledge? / Alan Gewirth -- Pluralism and the value of life / John Kekes -- Pluralism and reasonable disagreement / Charles Larmore -- Moral disagreement and moral relativism / Nicholas L. Sturgeon -- Moral relativism, cognitivism, and defeasible rules / Ernest Sosa -- Moral change and social relativism / Joseph Raz -- The expiration of morality / Wallace I. Matson -- Common sense and first principles in Sidgwick's Methods / David O. Brink -- On why Hume's "General point of view" isn't ideal -- and shouldn't be / Geoffrey Sayre-McCord -- Explaining value / Gilbert Harman -- The culture of poverty / Bernard Boxill.
ISBN
0521466148
LCCN
^^^93038126^
OCLC
  • 29223093
  • SCSB-12593569
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library