Moral Relativism

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 93-98

  Sheehan, Mark ^a  

^a Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Descriptive moral relativism society and culture variation; Initial attractiveness of moral relativism; Moderate objectivism; Moderate relativism; Moral relativism descriptive and metaethical moral relativism

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EID: 84864367860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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