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Morality and cultural differences /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- I. The claims of moral relativism ; 1. Moral relativism versus moral absolutism ; 2. Moral relativism: A statement of the doctrine ; 3. Further misconceptions about moral relativism ; 4. The paradoxes of relativism
- II. Anthropology and moral relativism ; 5. The history of relativism in anthropology ; 6. Boas's criticisms of cultural evolutionism ; 7. Boas's methodological insights ; 8. Relativism and ethnocentrism ; 9. Is there evidence supporting moral relativism ; 10. Some obvious instances of the projection error ; 11. The projection error as a source of moral relativism ; 12. Pulling the strands together
- III. Philosophy and moral relativism ; 13. Westermarck's concession and the philosophical argument for moral relativism ; 14. A preliminary assessment of the philosophical argument ; 15. What is morality? ; 16. Problems in the philosophical description of morality ; 17. Enculturative conditioning ; 18. Islandia and despond ; 19. A final look at the relativist's argument ; 20. Our relation to other cultures
- Appendices
- Notes
- Index.