Description: In this unique work, James Sterba argues that traditional ethics has yet to face up to three important challenges posed by environmentalism, feminism, and multiculturalism. This failure signifies that no matter how successful traditional ethics has been at dealing with the problems it recognizes, it has not dealt with the possibility that its solutions to these problems are biased in favor of humans, men, and Western culture. In Three Challenges to Ethics, Sterba argues that in order to meet these challenges, traditional ethics must incorporate conflict resolution principles that favor non-humans over humans in a significant range of cases; rule out gendered family structures and implement an ideal of androgyny; and endorse an ethics that is secular in character and one that can survive a wide-ranging comparative evaluation of both Western and non-Western moral ideals and cultures.

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