Ethical Relativity is a 1932 book by the Finnish philosopher Edvard Westermarck, one of his main works. Westermark attacks the idea that moral principles...
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Moral relativism (redirect from Moral relativity)
though they may disagree about certain "facts".[citation needed] "Ethical Relativity" is the topic of the first two chapters in The Concept of Morals,...
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spent the rest of his life completing and publishing his major works, Ethical Relativity (1932), Three Essays on Sex and Morals (1934), The Future of Marriage...
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Relativism (redirect from Relativity of Knowledge)
codes). (Many normative ethical relativist arguments run from premises about ethics to conclusions that assert the relativity of truth values, bypassing...
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2307/1416111. ISSN 0002-9556. JSTOR 1416111. Duncker, Karl (1939). "Ethical Relativity? An Enquiry into the Psychology of Ethics". Mind. 48 (189): 39–57...
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Cultural relativism (redirect from Cultural relativity)
and racism more generally." Herodotus (Histories 3.38) observes on the relativity of mores (νόμοι): If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity...
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Albert Einstein (category American relativity theorists)
most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His...
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Business ethics (redirect from Ethical business)
international context of business. Theoretical issues such as cultural relativity of ethical values receive more emphasis in this field. Other, older issues...
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Metaethics (redirect from Meta-ethical)
supervenience) to entirely non-ethical properties. Most ethical naturalists hold that we have empirical knowledge of moral truths. Ethical naturalism was implicitly...
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Moral realism (redirect from Ethical realism)
Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is...
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interpretation of ethical dualism has been formulated by the theologian and realist Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 – 1971), who stressed the relativity of every moral...
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Factual relativism (redirect from Knowledge relativity)
of our time. Defenders see it as a harbinger of tolerance and the only ethical and epistemic stance worthy of the open-minded and tolerant. Detractors...
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the relativist (a look at and analysis of relativist claims, mainly ethical relativity) Could a machine think? Does God exist? The strange case of the rational...
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Prometheus: A Study of Milton's Satan (1952). Westermarck, Edvard. Ethical relativity (1932). Wheeler, William Morton. The social insects: their origin...
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of Paradox: Jainism, Absolute Relativity, and Religious Pluralism. Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical. London: Rowman...
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the usefulness of something or someone, based on a comparison or other relativity. As a generalization, a value judgment can refer to a judgment based upon...
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Buddhism and science (redirect from Buddhism and relativity)
universal relativity could be a useful guide for future physics," since "the major changes in physics in this century have been extensions of relativity at one...
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Einstein–Oppenheimer relationship (category American relativity theorists)
the existence of Black holes. Einstein used his own general theory of relativity to arrive at this conclusion. A few months after Einstein rejected the...
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Expressivism (category Ethical theories)
accounts of moral truths – e.g., Kantianism – and realist accounts – e.g., ethical intuitionism. Because expressivism claims that the function of moral language...
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List of The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) episodes (redirect from Relativity Theory (The Outer Limits))
last moment of glory... their love for each other... and oblivion. 67 6 "Relativity Theory" Ken Girotti Carleton Eastlake February 27, 1998 (1998-02-27) Biologist...
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William Kingdon Clifford (category British relativity theorists)
Matter", was published in 1876, anticipating Albert Einstein's general relativity by 40 years. Clifford elaborated elliptic space geometry as a non-Euclidean...
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Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (category Relativity critics)
[citation needed] Lovejoy was also an opponent of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. In 1930, he published a paper criticizing Einstein's relativistic concept...
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The Tale of Despereaux (film) (category Relativity Media animated films)
Allison Thomas as director, before the film was approved for funding by Relativity Media, with pre-production (including character design, the first drafts...
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and the Theory of Relativity in Beijing and Shanghai. Once Fang published his theory, some of the critics of the Theory of Relativity, especially a group...
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as deontological ethics and consequentialism. An example of normative ethical philosophy is the Golden Rule, which states: "One should treat others as...
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wake of Einstein's theories of relativity that he calls dynamic invariance principles. Einstein, Albert (1961). Relativity: The Special and the General...
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mechanics) Sticky bead argument (general relativity) The Monkey and the Hunter (gravitation) Twin paradox (special relativity) Wheeler's delayed choice experiment...
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trajectories, and studied the effects of solar radiation pressure and general relativity on Earth-orbiting satellites. IAU · 5322 5323 Fogh 1986 TL4 Hans Jørn...
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Non-cognitivism (category Ethical theories)
Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences do not express propositions (i.e., statements) and thus cannot be true or false (they...
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