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Steven Lukes, The Diversity of Morals, Princeton University Press, 2025, 256pp., $29.95 (hbk) ISBN 9780691157191.

Reviewed by Jussi Suikkanen, University of Birmingham

The Diversity of Morals is a fascinating and richly interdisciplinary book. In it, Steven Lukes, professor emeritus of sociology at New York University, draws on philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political theory, history, and other social and human sciences to examine a broad range of essential questions about morality. Chapter 1 focuses on drawing two contrasts. According to the first contrast, philosophers typically tend to believe both (i) that there is a single, objectively correct morality, and (ii) that certain moral virtues, concepts, ideals, and institutions which reflect that morality are universal. Philosophers are also here presented as holding that universal,...