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Morality and Cultural Differences

Name: Morality and Cultural Differences
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195158632
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Autor: John W. Cook

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Oxford University Press Inc

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The scholars who defend or dispute moral relativism, the idea that a moral principle cannot be appli...

Informácie o knihe

Autor

John W. Cook

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2003

Stránok

224

EAN

9780195158632

ISBN

0195158636

Enbook ID

04515841

Vydavateľ

Oxford University Press Inc

Hmotnosť

358

Rozmery

152 x 228 x 14

Kompletný popis

The scholars who defend or dispute moral relativism, the idea that a moral principle cannot be applied to people whose culture does not accept it, have concerned themselves with either the philosophical or anthropological aspects of relativism. This study shows that in order to arrive at a definitive appraisal of moral relativism, it is necessary to understand and investigate both its anthropological and philosophical aspects. Carefully examining the arguments for and against moral relativism, Cook exposes not only that anthropologists have failed in their attempt to support relativism with evidence of cultural differences, but that moral absolutists have been equally unsuccessful in their attempts to refute it. He argues that these conflicting positions are both guilty of an artificial and unrealistic view of morality and proposes a more subtle and complex account of morality.