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Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics

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Cherry, M.J. (2004). Natural Law and Moral Pluralism. In: Cherry, M.J. (eds) Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2224-7_2

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