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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1984.
The argument for metaethical relativism, the view that there is no
single true or most justified morality, is that it is part of the
best explanation of the most difficult moral disagreements. The
argument for this view features a comparison between traditions
that highly value relationship and community and traditions that
highly value personal autonomy of the individual and rights. It is
held that moralities are best understood as emerging from human
culture in response to the need to promote and regulate
interpersonal cooperation and internal motivational coherence in
the individual. The argument ends in the conclusion that there is a
bounded plurality of true and most justified moralities that
accomplish these functions. The normative implications of this form
of metaethical relativism are explored, with specific focus on
female genital cutting and abortion.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1984.
Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy
of Michael Krausz addresses three major philosophical themes:
interpretation, relativism, and identity. It does so by focusing on
Krausz's distinctive exploration of the relationship between
interpretation and ontology, the varieties of relativism, and the
interpretive dimension of identity construction. Throughout the
years, Krausz has participated in exchanges between people who
embrace opposing views about reality, human selves, and the
attachments or detachments between them. In these exchanges, life
orientations are at stake as much as conceptual distinctions. These
exchanges are reflected in a discussion among renowned scholars in
philosophy and literary studies not only on Krausz's work but also
on the significant philosophical implications of key issues for how
we understand the human condition, our commitments and values, the
meaning of religious and artistic texts, and the way we make sense
of our lives and ourselves. The contributors to this volume engage
with all of these concerns in their dialogue with Krausz and with
one another. The range and versatility of Krausz's conceptual
apparatus can benefit students and scholars with interests in
interpretative endeavors, different ontological commitments, and
various conceptual priorities and preferences.
In this book, David B. Wong defends an ambitious and important new
version of moral relativism. He does not espouse the type of
relativism that says anything goes, but he does start with a
relativist stance against alternative theories such that there need
not be only one universal truth. Wong proposes that there can be a
plurality of true moralities existing across different traditions
and cultures, all with one core human question as to how we can all
live together.
The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose
Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual
rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and
community to the self. The essays in this collection discuss the
validity of that contrast as it concerns Confucianism, the single
most influential Chinese school of thought. Alasdair MacIntyre, the
single most influential philosopher to articulate the need for
dialogue across traditions, contributes a concluding essay of
commentary. This is the only consistently philosophical collection
on Asia and human rights and could be used in courses on
comparative ethics, political philosophy and Asian area studies.
The Chinese ethical tradition has often been thought to oppose
Western views of the self as autonomous and possessed of individual
rights with views that emphasize the centrality of relationship and
community to the self. The essays in this collection discuss the
validity of that contrast as it concerns Confucianism, the single
most influential Chinese school of thought. Alasdair MacIntyre, the
single most influential philosopher to articulate the need for
dialogue across traditions, contributes a concluding essay of
commentary. This is the only consistently philosophical collection
on Asia and human rights and could be used in courses on
comparative ethics, political philosophy and Asian area studies.
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