Moral relativism / Steven Lukes.
Material type: TextSeries: Big ideas/small booksPublisher: New York : Picador, 2008Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 196 ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0312427190
- 9780312427191
- 171.7 22
- BJ1500.R37 L85 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-182) and index.
Relativism: cognitive and moral -- Reason, custom, and nature -- The diversity of morals -- Cultures and values -- The universal and relative.
"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? ..."
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