The Diversity of Morals

How to make sense of the divergence between philosophers’ quest for a single morality and social scientists’ assumption that there are multiple moralities

When we speak of morals, what are we speaking of? Is morality singular (as many philosophers tend to assume, even if they don’t agree on what it is) or are there multiple moralities (which social scientists, notably anthropologists, study)? In The Diversity of Morals, Steven Lukes brings together these differing perspectives. Drawing on ph...