Natural Moralities

Natural Moralities

Author: David B Wong

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0199724849

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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 Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1, Ancient Science

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1, Ancient Science

Author: Alexander Jones

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-12-13

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108682626

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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently available. Together, they reveal the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in the study of nature in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the ancient world, contributors consider scientific, medical and mathematical learning in the cultures associated with the ancient world.


Human Rights in Africa

Human Rights in Africa

Author: ʻAbd Allāh Aḥmad Naʻīm

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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" This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights. "


Return from the Natives

Return from the Natives

Author: Peter Mandler

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0300187858

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Part intellectual biography, part cultural history and part history of human sciences, this fascinating volume follows renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead and her colleagues as they showed that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War.


Culture and Rights

Culture and Rights

Author: Jane K. Cowan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-11-29

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780521797351

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Part I: Setting universal rights


Universalism Vs. Relativism

Universalism Vs. Relativism

Author: Don S. Browning

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780742550902

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Has moral relativism run its course? The threat of 9/11, terrorism, reproductive technology, and globalization has forced us to ask anew whether there are universal moral truths upon which to base ethical and political judgments. In this timely edited collection, distinguished scholars present and test the best answers to this question. These insightful responses temper the strong antithesis between universalism and relativism and retain sensitivity to how language and history shape the context of our moral decisions. This important and relevant work of contemporary political and social thought is ideal for use in the classroom across many disciplines, including political science, philosophy, ethics, law, and theology.


Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity

Author:

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780754675471

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This collection considers how contemporary cultural and religious diversity challenges legal practice. Comparative in analysis, this study places particular cases in their widest context, taking into account international and transnational influences.