COMPARATIVE ETHICS, A COMMON MORALITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

This essay is a brief attempt to summarize and evaluate the contributions that "Democracy and Tradition" makes to the field of comparative ethics. It is argued that the potential impact of these contributions would be strengthened by engagement with the common morality already imbedded in...

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Published inThe Journal of religious ethics Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 649 - 657
Main Author Twiss, Sumner B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing, Inc 01.12.2005
Blackwell Publishers
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
common morality
Communities
comparative ethics
Descriptive ethics
Epistemology
Ethical behavior
Ethical epistemology
Ethical instruction
Ethics
Foucus on Jeffrey Stout's "Democracy and Tradition"
Human rights
justification
moral epistemology
Moral judgment
Morality
Religious ethics
Social ethics
Traditions
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Summary:This essay is a brief attempt to summarize and evaluate the contributions that "Democracy and Tradition" makes to the field of comparative ethics. It is argued that the potential impact of these contributions would be strengthened by engagement with the common morality already imbedded in international human rights norms.
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ISSN:0384-9694
1467-9795
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9795.2005.00242.x