Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism
In this book, David B. Wong defends an ambitious and important new version of moral relativism. He does not espouse the type of relativism that says anything goes, but he does start with a relativist stance against alternative theories such that there need not be only one universal truth. Wong proposes that there can be a plurality of true moralities existing across different traditions and cultures, all with one core human question as to how we can all live together.
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Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism
In this book, David B. Wong defends an ambitious and important new version of moral relativism. He does not espouse the type of relativism that says anything goes, but he does start with a relativist stance against alternative theories such that there need not be only one universal truth. Wong proposes that there can be a plurality of true moralities existing across different traditions and cultures, all with one core human question as to how we can all live together.
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Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

by David B Wong
Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

by David B Wong

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In this book, David B. Wong defends an ambitious and important new version of moral relativism. He does not espouse the type of relativism that says anything goes, but he does start with a relativist stance against alternative theories such that there need not be only one universal truth. Wong proposes that there can be a plurality of true moralities existing across different traditions and cultures, all with one core human question as to how we can all live together.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199724840
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/03/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 574 KB

About the Author

David B. Wong is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Duke University. He has written in ethical theory on issues of relativism and dealing with moral conflict, comparative and Chinese philosophy.

Table of Contents


Introduction     xi
How Pluralism and Naturalism Make for Natural Moralities
Pluralism and Ambivalence     5
Pluralistic Relativism     29
Objections and Replies     76
Constraints on Natural Moralities
Identity, Flourishing, and Relationship     115
Community and Liberal Theory     146
Does Psychological Realism Constrain the Content of Moralities?     159
Having Confidence in Our Moral Commitments
Moral Reasons-Internal and External     179
Morality and Need     202
Coping with Moral Difference     228
Bibliography     273
Index     287
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