Ideas from 'MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment' by Thomas Nagel [1988], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994' by Nagel,Thomas [OUP 1999,0-19-513246-7]].

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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture
                        Full Idea: One would have to be very morally lazy to be unconcerned with the possibility that the prevailing morality of one's culture had something fundamentally wrong with it.
                        From: Thomas Nagel (MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment [1988], 203)