J. Kellenberger is professor of philosophy at California State University, Northridge.

Moral relativism is as common today with undergrads as cell phones and backpacks. J. Kellenberger’s dialogue provides professors teaching ethics a clear and engaging text on the varieties of moral relativism, and the problems faced by relativists and subjectivists. I highly endorse it.

• Chapter 1: Subjectivism, Some Cultural Differences, and Cultural Moral RelativismChapter 2: A Remembered Incident, Human Rights as a "Higher Standard," and Arguments against Cultural Moral RelativismChapter 3: More on "Higher Standards," Arguments against Subjectivism, Why Maria is not a Cultural Moral Relativist, and Manners vs MoralityChapter 4: Tolerance, Conscience, Moral Universals, Ethnocentrism, and Moral AbsolutesChapter 5: Modified Cultural Moral Relativism and Qualified SubjectivismChapter 6: Moral Relativism vs Moral Absolutism, the Determining Type of Moral Relativism vs the Varying Type, Vishnu Sums Up, and Different Kinds of Cultural Differences Revisited

J. Kellenberger is professor of philosophy at California State University, Northridge.

Moral relativism is as common today with undergrads as cell phones and backpacks. J. Kellenberger’s dialogue provides professors teaching ethics a clear and engaging text on the varieties of moral relativism, and the problems faced by relativists and subjectivists. I highly endorse it.

• Chapter 1: Subjectivism, Some Cultural Differences, and Cultural Moral RelativismChapter 2: A Remembered Incident, Human Rights as a "Higher Standard," and Arguments against Cultural Moral RelativismChapter 3: More on "Higher Standards," Arguments against Subjectivism, Why Maria is not a Cultural Moral Relativist, and Manners vs MoralityChapter 4: Tolerance, Conscience, Moral Universals, Ethnocentrism, and Moral AbsolutesChapter 5: Modified Cultural Moral Relativism and Qualified SubjectivismChapter 6: Moral Relativism vs Moral Absolutism, the Determining Type of Moral Relativism vs the Varying Type, Vishnu Sums Up, and Different Kinds of Cultural Differences Revisited