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Moral disagreements : classic and contemporary readings /

Can moral disagreements be rationally resolved? Can universal human rights be defended in face of moral disagreements? The problem of moral disagreement is one of the central problems in moral thinking. It also provides a stimulating stepping-stone to some of the perennial problems of philosophy, su...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gowans, Christopher W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : debates about moral disagreements / Christopher W. Gowans
  • Outlines of scepticism / Sextus Empiricus
  • Natural law and moral disagreements / Thomas Aquinas
  • Renaissance skepticism / Michel de Montaigne
  • A dialogue / David Hume
  • Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Yanomamö : the last days of Eden / Napoleon A. Chagnon
  • The astonishment of anthropology / Richard A. Shweder
  • Human rights, human difference : anthropology's contribution to an emancipatory cultural politics / Terence Turner
  • The argument from relativity / J.L. Mackie
  • Knowledge, science, convergence / Bernard Williams
  • Moral relativity and tolerance / David B. Wong
  • Moral disagreement / David O. Brink
  • Non-relative virtues : an Aristotelian approach / Martha Nussbaum
  • Is cultural pluralism relevant to moral knowledge? / Alan Gewirth
  • The pursuit of the ideal / Isaiah Berlin
  • The rationality of traditions / Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Political liberalism and the idea of an overlapping consensus / John Rawls
  • Essence of culture and a sense of history : a feminist critique of cultural essentialism / Uma Narayan.