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Titel: Moral relativity
Autor: Wong, David B.
Jahr: 1984
Contents
Preface xi
1. Introduction to the Strategy of Argument for
Moral Relativity and its Normative
Implications 1
1.1 Explaining moral experience 1
1.2 Why we need new analyses of moral language 5
1.3 Reconciling moral objectivity with subjectivity 6
1.4 The normative implications of moral relativity 8
2. The Importance of Moral Truth 10
2.1 The purpose of surveying the analyses of
Stevenson and Hare 10
2.2 Stevenson's moral individualism 10
2.3 Hare's principled moral individualism 12
2.4 Using the work of Tarski and Davidson on truth 16
3. Relativist Analyses of Morality as Social Creation 23
3.1 Harman's analysis of morality as social creation 23
3.2 Castafieda's analysis of morality as social
creation 26
4. The Recommended Relativist Analysis of Moral
"A ought to do X" Statements 37
4.1 Rules and moral statements 37
4.2 An analysis of the moral "A ought to do X" 40
viii CONTENTS
5. The Analysis of "A ought to do X" Statements
Completed 48
5.1 Applying theories of reference 48
5.2 A causal theory of moral reference? 52
5.3 The case for applying the descriptive theory 59
5.4 Advantages over the previous relativist analyses 63
5.5 The general use of "A ought to do X" statements 66
6. The Recommended Relativist Analysis of "X is a
good Y" Statements and Consideration of
Objections 68
6.1 Evaluating according to standards 68
6.2 A general analysis of "X is a good Y" statements 69
6.3 Possible objections to the analyses 71
7. Absolutist Analyses of Moral Statements 80
7.1 Three kinds of absolutist analysis 80
7.2 Gewirth's Kantianism 80
7.3 Nagel's Kantianism 83
7.4 Kantian analyses of moral language 87
7.5 McDowell's Aristotelianism and corresponding
analyses of moral language 91
7.6 Foot's Aristotelianism and corresponding
analyses of moral statements 96
7.7 Moore's Platonism 100
7.8 Platts' Platonism and corresponding analyses
of moral language 102
8. The Method for Explaining Diversity and
Disagreement in Moral Belief 105
8.1 Why we need a principle of translation 105
8.2 Quine's principle of charity 106
8.3 Grandy's principle of humanity 107
8.4 The principle of the best explanation 112
8.5 Charity versus the best explanation in translation
of moral language 114
8.6 A possible objection to the principle of the best
explanation 116
8.7 Absolutist methods of accounting for diversity
and disagreement 117
9. Virtue-Centered and Rights-Centered Moralities 121
9.1 The claims to be made for moral relativity 121
CONTENTS ix
9.2 Maclntyre's theory of moral catastrophe 122
9.3 Are rights-centered moralities less objective
than virtue-centered moralities? 131
10. Moral Relativity Within Virtue-Centered and
Rights-Centered Moralities 139
10.1 A statement of the hypothesis that there are
indeterminacies and variations in truth condi¬
tions within rights-centered moralities 139
10.2 A statement of the hypothesis that there are
indeterminacies and variations in truth condi¬
tions within virtue-centered moralities 142
10.3 An explanation of the Rawls-Nozick disagree¬
ment that is consistent with the relativist
hypothesis 146
10.4 Will the absolutist explanations of the Rawls-
Nozick disagreement work? 150
10.5 Cross-cultural differences between virtue-
centered moralities 153
10.6 Do the cross-cultural differences correspond to
differences in truth conditions? 156
11. Comparing the Truth of Virtue-Centered and
Rights-Centered Moralities 160
11.1 Identifying the differences 160
11.2 Are there differences over the value of
freedom? 162
11.3 The case for variation in truth conditions 168
11.4 Accepting moral relativity 175
12. Tolerance and Nonintervention as Implications
of Moral Relativity 177
12.1 Does anything follow from moral relativity? 177
12.2 Criticisms of relativist arguments for
tolerance 177
12.3 A valid relativist argument for tolerance 179
12.4 Problems posed for the argument 184
12.5 Applying the relativist argument to abortion 190
13. Moral Relativity and the Problem of
Equal Worth 198
13.1 Why there is a problem of equal worth 198
13.2 The costs of according unequal worth 203
X CONTENTS
13.3 Moral relativity, Taoism, and equal worth 206
13.4 Social structures conducive to the attitude of
according equal worth 208
13.5 Taoism reconsidered 213
Appendix A 216
Appendix B 220
Notes 223
Bibliography 237
Index 243 |
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