The Diversity of Morals

by Steven Lukes

First published 2025 · debut

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Reception

2025
The New Yorker, best books of 2025
Nonfiction · Also recommended.
2026
New York Review of Books
Reviewed by Susan Neiman, 3 September
2026
Times Literary Supplement
Reviewed by Simone Gubler, 16 September

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Times Literary Supplement · 16 September 2026

Is eating people wrong?

How to distinguish morality from convention

By Simone Gubler

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New York Review of Books · 3 September 2026

Is Morality Universal?

In The Diversity of Morals, Steven Lukes attempts to reconcile philosophical arguments that there is one morality despite cultural differences with empirical studies that suggest it’s all relative.

By Susan Neiman

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Catalogue record

Princeton University Press, 2025 · 240 pages

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2025
Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-0-691-15719-1

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Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2025
Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-0-691-15719-1
Author: Lukes, Steven
Statement: The Diversity of Morals / Steven Lukes.
Records: Open Library

Subjects

2020s

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026