Basic moral values: A shared core

Ethics and International Affairs 9:155-170 (1995)
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Without some form of objectivity, Harbour argues, there is no firm grounding other than taste for criticizing whatever constitutes another culture's values, or even for reforming one's own—and there is no firm grounding for moral objections to someone such as Hitler or Idi Amin

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