If not, then of course there could never be any moral progress. Progress means not just changing, but changing for the better ...
This is Part 2 of a series on moral relativism. The previous article can be found here. Lack of virtue. Moral relativism is based on individual preferences. Exactly who would do the nominating who for ...
The world is increasingly embracing diversity — religious, cultural, and political diversity, for example. Embracing diversity means being more tolerant to differences between individuals and groups, ...
When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be elected Pope Benedict XVI, memorably warned of a looming "dictatorship of relativism" in 2005, he articulated what many conservative Catholics had long ...
Re “What We Bush Voters Share: In God We Trust,” Commentary, Nov. 8: David Klinghoffer is wrong in claiming that morality is “objective” because it comes from God. Every religious moral tradition ...
Bemoaning the lack of tension in stories around black-and-white morality, many writers believe readers prefer the unpredictability of gray morality, which is in stark contrast to the clear, objective ...
I recently read a column on CNN.com by Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and visiting professor of business ethics at the NYU-Stern School of Business. In the ...
The winning program was devised by a Canadian, Anatole Rapoport, and was called Tit-for-Tat. It was dazzlingly simple: it began by cooperating, and then repeated the last move of its opponent. It ...