“An Argument for Moral Relativism” with guest David. B. Wong

EPISODE 96:
ORIGINALLY BROADCAST: OCTOBER 9, 2016

Nothing could be more common than people asserting that their own ethical beliefs are right, while others are wrong. From abortion, to vegetarianism, to pacifism, to democracy, people and cultures are convinced that their way of life is morally superior. But what happens when we consider the possibility that there is more than one way to live ethically? What happens when we are charitable about others’ way of life? On this episode we are going to do just that.

David Wong is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. Before he moved to Duke, he was the Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University and the John M. Findlay Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. His books include Moral Relativity (University of California Press, 1984) and Natural Moralities (Oxford University Press, 2006). A book of critical essays on Natural Moralities is Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy: David Wong and his Critics, ed. by Yang Xiao and Yong Huang, SUNY Press, 2014), with responses by Wong to the essays. Wong has co-edited with Kwong-loi Shun Confucian Ethics: a Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy and Community (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

The text of this episode’s monologue can be found here at our blog, PQED.

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