How to Be a Moral Relativist

Southern Journal of Philosophy 35 (3):393-417 (1997)
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Abstract

I provide a novel kind of argument for moral relativism which combines a general quasi-indexical semantics for the most important thin moral terms with an indeterminacy thesis. I then argue that the version of moral relativism supported by this strategy of argument allows for good rejoinders to the three most important and familiar objections to moral relativism.

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