Relativism and Universalism

A Companion to Moral Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 85-102

  Shweder, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Moral standard to the person in question, bearing no universal validity; Moral universalism, objective reality in judging the right and wrong; Moral universalism, the standard characterization; The very same acts or practice, becoming right wrong, virtuous vicious; Variety of relativism, targeted in ethics textuals; Westermarck's Ethical Relativism, core ideas of moral universalism; Wong's, and standard characterizations of universalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876146413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118290620.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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