Ethical Relativity

Ethical Relativity

Author	Edvard Westermarck
Subject	Ethics
Published	1932
Media type	Print
Pages	320 (2010 Routledge edition)
ISBN	978-0415613712

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

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

1. Pojman 1999. p. 970.
2. Hintikka 2005. p. 303.

Bibliography

Books

• Hintikka, Jaakko (2005). Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1.
• Pojman, Louis P. (1999). Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.