Durkheim ethics and its reconciliation of relativism and objectivism

• Main Author: Lee, Zhen Yi
• Other Authors: Christina Chuang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73554
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis will argue that a reconciliation of the opposing moral beliefs of moral relativism and moral objectivism can be found in the moral philosophical work of famed sociologist Emile Durkheim. This can be understood by first recognising that there are multiple facets to morality that form its...