Someone who believes in a real morality may be faced with the following challenge: How can you claim that there is a real morality (absolute, objective and universally binding on all people)? You say ...
How do you think about your morality? If you are like most people, you probably have a fairly strong sense of right and wrong. For example, nearly everyone agrees it is morally wrong to hurt people ...
I receive a fair share of e-mail from people who complain about “ethical relativism.” It’s ruining the world, they say. Unfortunately, most of these people have a faulty knowledge of what ethical ...
When I first started college, one of the courses I took was an ethics class introducing the idea of moral relativism. The takeaway, as I recall, is there are no moral absolutes. I have often wondered ...
We are moral because we need to be, argues Mark Johnson in Morality for Humans – and our moral compass rests on our knack for imagining future scenarios WHAT an enticing title: Morality for Humans. In ...
While the concept of respecting diverse perspectives is important, if you accept moral relativism without challenging its validity, then it can pose challenges to Christian principles. For example, ...