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Wortt, Aaron (2024) A Return To Virtue: How Nussbaum’s Ontology Triumphs Over Relativism. Masters thesis, University of Gloucestershire. doi:10.46289/PBSN5317
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In the western modern liberal world, a turn towards moral relativism has become evident. This type of thinking is often championed to be the protector of cultural differences and away to celebrate cultural individuality. However, the principles of moral relativism often struggle to theorise an agreeable account of cultural diversity in relation to what it means to be a person within that culture, even with developed forms of moral relativism such as Gilbert Harman’s. This is where we should retreat from moral relativism and instead turn our heads towards virtue ethics. Our claim is that through the ontological commitments of Martha Nussbaum’s virtue ethics we will find a better account of not only ethics in relation to the individual but also in relation to cross-culturally compatibility. In order to do this, we first consider the metaethical terms required for the dissertation. Then we shall consider relativism, the failings of its most vulgar form and a suitable and philosophically interesting replacement, being Harman’s work. We will analyse Harman’s relativism in comparison with Nussbaum’s virtue ethics with strong focus on the metaethical implications and commitments of both ethicists, ending with a positive account of Nussbaum’s ethics.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Relativism; Moral relativism; Martha Nussbaum; Virtue ethics; Gilbert Harman |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts |
| Depositing User: | Anna Kerr |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2025 10:26 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2025 10:26 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14954 |
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