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Main Author:	Wong, David B. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley u.a. Univ. of California Pr. 1984
Subjects:	Meta-ethiek Ethical relativism Relativismus Ethik
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Physical Description:	XII, 248 S.
ISBN:	0520049764

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adam_text	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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