Over at The Boston Review, David V. Johnson interviews Larissa MacFarquhar on her writing about ‘moral saints’, (‘people who have a very demanding sense of moral duty and live their lives accordingly’). MacFarquhar took this project on by way of offering a thesis opposed to the one advanced by Susan Wolf in her ‘Moral Saints‘Continue reading “Moral Saints, Just Lacking Modesty”
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Ethnocentricity, Moral Beliefs and Moral Truth
Adam Etinson writes in The Stone on ethnocentrism (defined as ‘our culture’s tendency to twist our judgment in favor of homegrown beliefs and practices and against foreign alternatives’), skepticism about universal morality and the existence of moral facts as a response to it, and finally, on whether such skepticism is warranted. To wit, concern aboutContinue reading “Ethnocentricity, Moral Beliefs and Moral Truth”
Samir Chopra 