1st Edition

Ethical Relativity

By Edward Westermarck Copyright 1932
    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume of VI Of six in a series on Ethic and Political Philosophy. Originally published in 1932, this study looks at how the emotional origin of moral judgments consistently leads to a denial of the objective validity ascribed to them both by common sense and by normative theories of ethics.

    I. THE SUPPOSED OBJECTIVITY OF MORAL JUDGMENTS II. THE SUPPOSED OBJECTIVITY OF MORAL JUDGMENTS (CONCLUDED) III. THE MORAL EMOTIONS IV. THE MORAL EMOTIONs (CONCLUDED) V. THE MORAL CONCEPTS VI. THE SUBJECTs OF MORAL JUDGMENTS VII. THE VARIABILITY OF MORAL JUDGMENTS VIII. THE EMOTIONAL BACKGROUND OF NORMATIVE THEORIES IX. THE EMOTIONAL BACKGROUND OF NORMATIVE THEORIES (CONCLUDED)

    Biography

    Edward Westermarck