Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-254) and index.
The persistence of deep moral disagreements -- across cultures as well as within them -- has created widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Moody-Adams challenges the misconceptions about morality, culture, and objectivity that support these skepticisms, to show that we can take moral disagreement seriously and yet retain our aspirations for moral objectivity.