| Description |
x, 260 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Taking Disagreement Seriously. Mapping the Relativist Domain. Relativism, Ethnocentrism, and the Decline of Moral Confidence. The Empirical Underdetermination of Descriptive Cultural Relativism. Cultural Authority, Cultural Complexity, and the Doctrine of Cultural Integration. The Perspicuous "Other": Relativism "Grown Tame and Sleek" -- 2. The Use and Abuse of History. History, Ethnography, and the Blurring of Cultural Boundaries. Relativism as a "Kind of Historiography"? Moral Debate, Conceptual Space, and the Relativism of Distance. Plus ca change ...: The Myths of Moral Invention and Discovery -- 3. Morality and Its Discontents. On the Supposed Inevitability of Rationally Irresolvable Moral Conflict. Pluralism, Conflict, and Choice. On the Alleged Methodological Infirmity of Moral Inquiry. Does Pessimism about Moral Conflict Rest on a Mistake? -- 4. Moral Inquiry and the Moral Life. Moral Inquiry as an Interpretive Enterprise |
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The Interpretive Turn and the Challenge of "Anti-Theory" A Pyrrhic Victory? Objectivity and the Aspirations of Moral Inquiry -- 5. Morality and Culture through Thick and Thin. The Need for Thick Descriptions of Moral Inquiry. Moral Conflict, Moral Confidence, and Moral Openness toward the Future. Critical Pluralism, Cultural Difference, and the Boundaries of Cross-Cultural Respect. The Strange Career of "Culture" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-254) and index |
| Subject |
Anthropological ethics.
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Anthropology.
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Ethical relativism -- Controversial works
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Ethical relativism -- Controversial literature.
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Ethical relativism.
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Ethics.
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| LC no. |
97012694 |
| ISBN |
0674299531 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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