Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 106
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7425-4774-2 • Paperback • September 2008 • $27.00 • (£19.99)
978-0-7425-6463-3 • eBook • March 2008 • $25.50 • (£19.99)
J. Kellenberger is professor of philosophy at California State University, Northridge.
Chapter 1: Subjectivism, Some Cultural Differences, and Cultural Moral Relativism
Chapter 2: A Remembered Incident, Human Rights as a "Higher Standard," and Arguments against Cultural Moral Relativism
Chapter 3: More on "Higher Standards," Arguments against Subjectivism, Why Maria is not a Cultural Moral Relativist, and Manners vs Morality
Chapter 4: Tolerance, Conscience, Moral Universals, Ethnocentrism, and Moral Absolutes
Chapter 5: Modified Cultural Moral Relativism and Qualified Subjectivism
Chapter 6: Moral Relativism vs Moral Absolutism, the Determining Type of Moral Relativism vs the Varying Type, Vishnu Sums Up, and Different Kinds of Cultural Differences Revisited
Moral relativism is as common today with undergrads as cell phones and backpacks. J. Kellenberger's dialogue provides professors teaching ethics a clear and engaging text on the varieties of moral relativism, and the problems faced by relativists and subjectivists. I highly endorse it.
— Jeff Jordan, University of Delaware
A promising new series that offers noteable contemporary philosophers the opportunity to write books in a neglected format that has proven historically to be remarkably fruitful.
— Steven M. Cahn