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The problems of philosophy may be perennial, yet some of them press harder on some generations than on others. The fact that judgments of value differ from man to man and from culture to culture was noticed by Herodotus, and was certainly very plain to Plato. For us this diversity, especially at the intercultural level, raises the most urgent philosophical problem of our day. Can we evaluate systems of evaluation, can we grade cultures, and if so, by what right?
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The Ethical Animal, by C.H. Waddington, George Allen and Unwin. London, 1960, pp. 230.
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Grene, M. (1974). The Ethical Animal: A Review. In: The Understanding of Nature. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2224-8_12
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