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Moral relativism
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ISBN: 9780312427191 0312427190 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Picador

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Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that trumps it all? These questions turn up everywhere, from Montaigne's essay on cannibals, to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, to the debate over female genital mutilation. They become ever more urgent with the growth of mass immigration, the rise of religious extremism, the challenges of Islamist terrorism, the rise of identity politics, and the resentment at colonialism and the massive disparities of wealth and power between North and South. Are human rights and humanitarian interventions just the latest form of cultural imperialism? By what right do we judge particular practices as barbaric? Who are the real barbarians? In this provocative new book, the distinguished social theorist Steven Lukes takes an incisive and enlightening look at these and other challenging questions and considers the very foundations of what we believe, why we believe it, and whether there is a profound discord between "us" and "them."

Ethical judgment : the use of science in ethics
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ISBN: 156000794X Year: 1995 Publisher: New Brunswick (N.J.) : Transaction publishers,

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Integrity and moral relativism
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ISBN: 9004095268 9004451641 9789004095267 Year: 1992 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Morality and cultural differences
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ISBN: 9780195158632 0195158636 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press,

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Moral relativism : a short introduction
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ISBN: 9781851683055 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford : Oneworld,

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Realism and relativism
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ISBN: 0631233849 9780631233848 Year: 2002 Volume: 12 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

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Unity in diversity
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ISBN: 0819183148 Year: 1991 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : University press of America,

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Le juste et le vrai : études sur l'objectivité des valeurs et de la connaissance
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ISBN: 9782012794177 2012794173 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris: Hachette,

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Cet ouvrage est d'abord une critique du relativisme régnant tant dans le monde moral que dans celui de la connaissance. Le développement des sciences humaines s'est en effet accompagné de l'idée que des notions comme celle de bien moral ou de vérité sont avant tout affaire de convention et n'ont d'existence que relativement à un certain état de la société, voire à l'usage qu'en font certains individus. La connaissance scientifique ne nous proposerait pas une représentation du monde plus fiable que les mythes archaïques. Pourtant, les individus passent le plus clair de leur temps à porter avec conviction des appréciations morales qu'ils estiment fondées. Sont-ils en proie à l'illusion ? Rompant à la fois avec le relativisme cognitif et avec le relativisme moral, ce livre propose un chemin vers une détermination objective de la vérité et du bien moral, qui tienne compte des critiques contemporaines, mais ne renonce pas à parler vrai, ni à agir justement.

Moral relativism: a reader
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ISBN: 0195131304 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Ethical relativism
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ISBN: 081914567X Year: 1985 Publisher: Lanham University press of America

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