What I'm arguing is that morality, questions of good and evil, right and wrong, because they relate to questions of human and animal well-being, also entail truth claims about our world, human nature or the prospects of human happiness that fall within the purview of science.
Setting aside morality questions about executing 10 billion living beings a year simply to satiate an epicurean fancy, the sheer energy costs of this dietary choice are monstrous.
I recently got a chance to participate in a round table discussion with Linney and Banderas about their roles, the film's morality questions and why this film could never have been made in Hollywood.
In attempting to ground special obligations, the defender of special obligations must face issues about the role of the metaphysics of personal identity in determining features of morality and questions in moral epistemology, among other issues.
Her stories utilise myth, enchantment and the lurid subject matter of the gothic (incest, murder, witchcraft) to explore philosophy, morality and questions of identity.
Despite his early insistence that personal morality was a question for individual conscience, not general agreement, he had a clear view of the good society.
Whyte's "guide to clear thinking" analyses numerous rhetorical devices, such as the argument to authority, inconsistency, begging the question, "morality fever", and so on.
Questions of morality are, to some degree, questions of paying attention.
"I felt that it dealt with morality and philosophical questions in a way that many of us would wish were part of the reality of our lives".
