Plurality, Pluralism, and Comparative Ethics: A Review Essay
Recent discussions of religious, cultural, and/or moral diversity raise questions relevant to the descriptive and normative aims of students of religious ethics. In conversation with several illustrative works, the author takes up (1) issues of terminology, (2) explanations or classifications of typ...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1996
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| In: |
Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1996, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 403-428 |
| Review of: | Radical pluralism and truth (New York, NY : Crossroad, 1991) (Kelsay, John)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Recent discussions of religious, cultural, and/or moral diversity raise questions relevant to the descriptive and normative aims of students of religious ethics. In conversation with several illustrative works, the author takes up (1) issues of terminology, (2) explanations or classifications of types and origins of plurality and pluralism, (3) the relations between pluralism as a normative theory and the aims of a liberal state, and (4) the import of an emphasis on plurality or pluralism for the comparative study of religious ethics. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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