Morality and Cultural Differences.

The scholars who defend or dispute moral relativism, the idea that a moral principle cannot be applied to people whose culture does not accept it, have concerned themselves with either the philosophical or anthropological aspects of relativism. This study shows that in order to arrive at a definitiv...

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Main Author: Cook, John W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1999.
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