By the Standards of Their Day

The Monist 86 (3):469-480 (2003)
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Abstract

How far do our ethical and evaluative standards reach across the divides of space and time? Can we appropriately judge people remote from our own setting by the criteria we would apply locally? Do our norms project across spatiotemporal distance to apply to them as well?

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Nicholas Rescher
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