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"The essays which constitute the present volume, despite the variety of their topics and of the occasions under which they were prepared, have an unity which is already indicated in the title, but which may well be more explicitly set forth in this introduction. As a teacher of philosophy, the author of the papers here collected has several times given expression, in former books, to theories upon fundamental metaphysical issues. I have called these papers Studies of Good and Evil. The title is in its nature wide. It commits the essays contained in this volume merely to one common character. They are all, directly or indirectly, contributions to the comprehension of the ethical aspects of the universe. The papers are of very various relations to technical philosophical issues"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

Ethical relativism. --- Philosophy.

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Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung stellt sich nicht nur für Philosophen die Frage, wie mit den moralischen Werten und Normen Anderer umzugehen ist. Welchen Status haben diese im Verhältnis zu den eigenen Maßstäben? Gibt es so etwas wie moralische Objektivität oder ist vielmehr von einer grundlegenden Relativität der Moral auszugehen? Und welche praktischen Folgen ergeben sich aus der Verschiedenheit der moralischen Anschauun-gen oder sollten sich ergeben? Der Band möchte hier mehr Klarheit schaffen. In den Beiträgen wird nicht nur diskutiert, was unter moralischem Relativismus überhaupt zu verstehen und wie dieser zu bewerten ist, sondern auch, welche Rolle empirische Be-funde bezüglich der Verschiedenheit von Wertvorstellungen in der philo-sophischen Argumentation spielen. Das Buch hat drei Teile: Im ersten Teil stehen Fragen des deskriptiven moralischen Relativismus im Mittelpunkt, im zweiten Teil geht es um die Ana-lyse und Bewertung des moralischen Relativismus aus metaethischer Pers-pektive. Der dritte Teil schließlich behandelt den moralischen Relativismus vom Standpunkt der normativen Ethik aus. 'Moralischer Relativismus' ist besonders als Seminargrundlage geeignet, weil er ein breites Spektrum von Argumenten zum moralischen Relativis-mus einschließlich der empirischen Befunde leicht zugänglich macht. Die ausführliche Bibliographie erleichtert zudem den Einstieg in die Forschung.

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Ethical relativism. --- Ethical relativism. --- Ethik --- Relativismus --- Relativismus --- Ethik

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Ethical relativism. --- Religious pluralism --- Christianity.

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This book examines a variety of arguments that might be thought to support skepticism about the existence of morality, and it explains how these arguments can be answered by those who believe in objective moral truths. The focus throughout is on discussing questions that frequently trouble thoughtful and reflective individuals, including questions like the following: Does the prevalence of moral disagreement make it reasonable to conclude that there aren't really any moral facts at all? Is morality simply relative to particular societies and times? What could objective moral facts possibly be like? If there were moral facts, how could we ever come to know anything about them? Shouldn't belief in the theory of evolution undermine our confidence that our moral intuitions reliably reveal moral truths? Would moral facts ever actually explain anything at all? Can morality really have the motivating and rational force we normally take it to have? How can one possibly find a place for objective moral values in a scientific worldview? The book explores plausible answers to questions like these and it thus aims to show why the belief in objective morality remains an intellectually reasonable one.

Ethics --- Ethical relativism --- Skepticism --- Metaethics