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Investigates the concept of a culture-transcendent moral law, discusses the place of religious ethics in modern moral philosophy, and reviews recent writings in cultural anthropology
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Jeffrey Stout is one of the most penetrating and provocative philosophers on the American scene.--Cornel West "Theology Today "
The most thorough and persuasive attempt to date to take account of the multiplicity of moral standpoints in our culture and to argue that it does not threaten coherent moral discourse. An unusually lucid and penetrating book.--J. B. Schneewind "Canadian Philosophical Reviews "
Jeffrey Stout is one of the most penetrating and provocative philosophers on the American scene.
--Cornel West "Theology Today "
The most thorough and persuasive attempt to date to take account of the multiplicity of moral standpoints in our culture and to argue that it does not threaten coherent moral discourse. An unusually lucid and penetrating book.
--J. B. Schneewind "Canadian Philosophical Reviews "
Winner of the 1989 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence
Winner of the 1989 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence
Winner of the 1989 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence
"Jeffrey Stout is one of the most penetrating and provocative philosophers on the American scene."--Cornel West, Theology Today
"The most thorough and persuasive attempt to date to take account of the multiplicity of moral standpoints in our culture and to argue that it does not threaten coherent moral discourse. An unusually lucid and penetrating book."--J. B. Schneewind, Canadian Philosophical Reviews
-Jeffrey Stout is one of the most penetrating and provocative philosophers on the American scene.---Cornel West, Theology Today
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"The most imaginative, thorough, and enlightening discussion of moral relativism I have read."--Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
"Professor Jeffrey Stout's Ethics after Babel is in effect the next step forward in public argument about moral language and ethical reasoning beyond Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue. . . . The two books together capture the central dialogue about the foundations of ethics at the present time."--Stephen Toulmin, Northwestern University
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