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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."
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Ethics. --- Anthropology. --- Ethical relativism.
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Ethical relativism. --- Ethical relativism. --- Ethik --- Relativismus --- Relativismus --- Ethik
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Realism --- Congresses --- Relativity --- Ethical relativism
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Ethical relativism. --- Religious pluralism --- Christianity.
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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.
Ethics --- Objectivism --- Ethical relativism --- Knowledge, Theory of
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Ethical relativism --- Moral relativism --- Relativism, Ethical --- Relativity (Ethics) --- Ethics --- Ethics, Evolutionary --- Ethical relativism.
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Ethical relativism --- Moral relativism --- Relativism, Ethical --- Relativity (Ethics) --- Ethics --- Ethics, Evolutionary --- Ethical relativism.
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