The Challenge of Ethical Relativism in a Coalition Environment

Journal of Military Ethics 7 (4):302-316 (2008)
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It appears fairly obvious that different cultures look at things in different ways. In Book III of his History, Herodotus gives an excellent and well-known example of ethical relativism by explaini...

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