Three Challenges to Ethics : Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism

Traditional ethics has yet to face up to three important challenges that come from environmentalism, feminism, and multiculturalism. This failure to face up to these challenges has meant that no matter how successful traditional ethics has been at dealing with the problems it recognizes, it has failed to deal with the possibility that its solutions to these problems are biased in favour of humans, biased in favour of men and biased in favour of Western culture. Thus those concerned with the justification of traditional ethics have no alternative but try to determine how these challenges can be met. This is precisely what Three Challenges to Ethics seeks to do.