Ethical Relativity

Ethical Relativity

Author	Edvard Westermarck
Genre	Philosophy
Published	1932
Media type	Print

Ethical Relativity is a 1932 book by the Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, one of his main works.^[1]

Summary 1
Scholarly reception 2
See also 3
References 4
- Footnotes 4.1
- Bibliography 4.2

Summary

Westermark attacks the idea that moral principles express objective value.^[1]

Scholarly reception

Ethical Relativity was a widely noted contribution to international discussion of its subject.^[2]

References

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b Pojman 1999. p. 970.
^ Hintikka 2005. p. 303.

Bibliography

Books

Hintikka, Jaakko (2005). Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pojman, Louis P. (1999). Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Ethical Relativity