Article: Wong, David B. Natural Moralities. A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism.(Book review)

WONG, David B. Natural Moralities. A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii + 293 pp. Cloth, $45.00--This book brings together and extends relativistic themes from articles David Wong has published after Moral Relativity (1984). He calls his conception pluralistic relativism or relativism with limits. In his own words, in Moral Relativity he mainly argued against universalism, while acknowledging space for moral objectivity, and in Natural Moralities he mainly argues that not all moralities are adequate or true. The former book focuses on relativism; the latter on its limits. Wong characterizes moral universalism as the view that ...