Christopher W. Gowans is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, NY. He is the editor of Moral Dilemmas (1987) and the author of Innocence Lost: An Examination of Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing (1994).

INTRODUCTION, Christopher W. Gowans; Part I Part I THE HISTORICAL DEBATE; Chapter 1 OUTLINES OF SCEPTICISM, Sextus Empiricus; Chapter 2 NATURAL LAW AND MORAL DISAGREEMENTS, Thomas Aquinas; Chapter 3 RENAISSANCE SKEPTICISM, Michel de Montaigne; Chapter 4 A DIALOGUE, David Hume; Chapter 5 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, Friedrich Nietzsche; Part II Part II SOME VOICES FROM ANTHROPOLOGY; Chapter 6 YANOMAMÖ: THE LAST DAYS OF EDEN, Napoleon A. Chagnon; Chapter 7 THE ASTONISHMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Richard A. Shweder; Chapter 8 HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN DIFFERENCE, Turner Terence; Part III Part III CHALLENGES TO MORAL OBJECTIVITY; Chapter 9 THE ARGUMENT FROM RELATIVITY, J.L. Mackie; Chapter 10 KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE, CONVERGENCE, BernardWilliams; Chapter 11 MORAL RELATIVITY AND TOLERANCE, David B. Wong; Part IV Part IV DEFENSES OF MORAL OBJECTIVITY; Chapter 12 MORAL DISAGREEMENT, David O. Brink; Chapter 13 NON-RELATIVE VIRTUES, Martha Nussbaum; Chapter 14 IS CULTURAL PLURALISM RELEVANT TO MORAL KNOWLEDGE?, Alan Gewirth; Part V Part V NEW DIRECTIONS; Chapter 15 THE PURSUIT OF THE IDEAL, Isaiah Berlin; Chapter 16 THE RATIONALITY OF TRADITIONS, MacIntyre Alasdair; Chapter 17 POLITICAL LIBERALISM AND THE IDEA OF AN OVERLAPPING CONSENSUS, John Rawls; Chapter 18 ESSENCE OF CULTURE AND A SENSE OF HISTORY, Uma Narayan; Bibliography INDEX;