Ethics without Principles

by Roy H. May Jr.

Book Overview

Ethics in the West too often equates morality with universal moral principles, thus imposing lifestyles and moral criteria that do not respect differences and local histories. Even Christianity proposes ethics that is based on eternal, absolute and universal truths or principles, independent of sociocultural and historical contexts. The problem is that these universal moral laws become a means of social control to exclude those who are different:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149822525X
• ISBN13: 9781498225250
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"