Keywords

• Aim of the essay is to define the moral relativism from a conceptual and historical point of view. The author analyses two different types of moral relativism and supports a so-called «reasonable» relativism: a form of relativism that is compatible with democracy and the rule of law. In this perspective
• the «reasonable» relativism shows to be able to accept moral pluralism as a fact and to give importance to moral reasoning with regard to conflicts among moral principles