Integrity and Moral Relativism draws on literary, philosophical and historical resources to demonstrate how Western society can use its own traditions to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate cross-cultural judgement, and legitimate from illegitimate cultural self-criticism. As long as there is a language for these possibilities, the book argues, an individual can see ethics as culturally based without compromising his or her own integrity.
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Integrity and Moral Relativism draws on literary, philosophical and historical resources to demonstrate how Western society can use its own traditions to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate cross-cultural judgement, and legitimate from illegitimate cultural self-criticism. As long as there is a language for these possibilities, the book argues, an individual can see ethics as culturally based without compromising his or her own integrity.
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. 1992 hardcover with jacket/ex-library with usual markings/clean & unmarked text/new clear archival cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 259 p. Philosophy of History and Culture, 10.