Moral realism without the ethnocentrism: Is it just a list of empty truisms?

Human Rights with Modesty: The Problem of Universalism

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 65-102

  Shweder, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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