Just because bad judgments about morality are possible doesn't mean judgments about morality are impossible.
No question, even in Ms. Whiskeyman's gripping, level-headed morality play, bad is bad.
But in his own life, he saw that there was an Orwellian connection between taste and morality — that bad faith nearly always means bad buildings and that bad faith in our society is endemic.
Like Kant's deontology, altruism leaves us without any moral guidance in our everyday lives and gives morality a bad name.
The subject is the poetry of Frederick Seidel, and the essay handles a familiar critical problem — the morality of bad taste, the Jeff Koons Michel Houellebecq Bret Easton Ellis problem — expertly if not entirely originally.
To cut off adaptation aid to countries suffering the impacts of climate change that are largely the result of past emissions from the US and other industrial countries risks making them look like the bad guys in a morality play.
The claim that competition and conquest rewarded the best and improved the species was contested from Darwin's day onwards.3 John Stuart Mill wrote a diatribe against taking nature as normative, declaring that nature was the source of "false taste, false philosophy, false morality," and bad law.
As the lawyer's wife works for the financier, there is the potential for Breaking Bad-style complexities of morality and power.
Does a baby's apparent preference for "good guys" over "bad guys" signal an inborn morality?
