Citations:moral diversity

English citations of moral diversity

• 1852, Henry James, “Democracy and Its Issues”, in Lectures and Miscellanies, →ISBN, page 37:

  The moral diversity which A, a technically good man, perceives between himself and B, a technically evil man, does not lead him to doubt the absoluteness of moral distinctions, does not lead him to dread these distinctions as tending to estrange man from his brother, and so to destroy human fellowship.

• 1896, Alexander Balmain Bruce, “Four Types of Christian Thought. IV. The Fourth Gospel”, in The Biblical World, volume 7, number 3, page 175:

  The common origin if not denied is treated as a matter of subordinate moment in comparison with the moral diversity.

• 1900, Thomas Cuming Hall, The Social Meaning of Modern Religious Movements in England: Being the Ely Lectures for 1899, C. Scribner's sons, →ISBN, page 7:

  The elements of true religion are simple. The elements that enter into its objective manifestations are as complex as human life in all its strange physical, mental, and moral diversity.

• 1944, Frans Van Cauwelaert, “The Small European Nations After the War”, in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, volume 234, number 1, pages 61–69:

  She will destroy by systematic action, and if necessary by violence, the moral diversity which has been the real secret of the intellectual richness and artistic beauty of the Old World.

• 1956, Morris Ginsberg, On the diversity of morals, The Whitefriars Press, page 98:

  It is important to remember that historically the recognition of moral diversity has not always led thinkers to commit themselves to doctrines of ethical relativity.

• 1963, T. L. McClintock, “The Argument for Ethical Relativism from the Diversity of Morals”, in The Monist‎^[1], volume 47, number 4, page 537:

  Therefore, the moral diversity to which anthropologists are supposedly drawing our attention must be a diversity of moral rules or principles.

• 1967, A. S. Cua, “Toward an Ethics of Moral Agents”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 28, number 2, pages 163–174:

  It [what Strawson calls 'the region of the ethical'] is the region of conflicting ideal images of man, the region of moral diversity.

• 1970, Donald J. Black, “Production of crime rates”, in American sociological review‎^[2], volume 35, number 4, page 739:

  Moral diversity in the citizen population by itself assures that some discrimination of this kind will occur.

• 1986, Alan John Mitchell Milne, Human Rights and Human Diversity: An essay in the philosophy of human rights‎^[3], Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 10:

  Does taking cultural and moral diversity seriously entail cultural and moral relativism, and, if so, does it matter?

• 1996, Sarah Barringer Gordon, “Our National Hearthstone: Anti-Polygamy Fiction and the Sentimental Campaign Against Moral Diversity in Antebellum America”, in Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities‎^[4], volume 8, number 2, page 316:

  The problem of moral diversity went deeper than occasional simple, sinful self-indulgence, however, to actual legal difference across space, across class, across religions.

• 1997, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr, Japanese and Western Bioethics: Studies in moral diversity‎^[5], Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 8:

  The significance of our situation depends very much on whether moral diversity is grounded on a failure to know truly which moral principles and values should bind, or whether the diversity is due to the very absence of such principles and values.

• 2000, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr, “Keynote Address: Bioethics at the End of the Millennium: Fashioning Health-Care Policy in the Absence of a Moral Consensus”, in Ethical Issues in Health Care on the Frontiers of the Twenty-First Century‎^[6], Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 13:

  We should prepare to meet a future in which moral diversity can peaceably persist.

• 2003, Jonathan Haidt with Evan Rosenberg and Holly Hom, “Differentiating diversities: Moral diversity is not like other kinds”, in Journal of Applied Social Psychology, volume 33, number 1, page 5:

  In the present article we suggest that the concept of value diversity is valuable, but that it should be reformulated as moral diversity, to focus on the kinds of important values upon which people’s world-views are based.

• 2010, James Kellenberger, Moral relativism, moral diversity, and human relationships‎^[7], Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 91:

  Undeniably, there is moral diversity in the world: a diversity of values, or moral perspective, of acknowledged obligations, of ways of understanding obligations, and more.