Rather than claim animal morality is the same as human morality, this book builds an appreciation of the variety and character of animal sensitivities and perceptions across multiple disciplines, moving animal welfarism in promising new directions.
But somehow putting Putin and morality in the same sentence doesn't sound right.
"After all, when it comes to preventing AIDS, don't medicine and morality teach the same lessons?" he said, according to the New York Times.
The problem with a belief in the immutability of morality is the same as the problem with a belief that the American Constitution contains the answers to all legal disputes.
It also made a tacit claim to morality at the same time that Mr. Bush was facing questions about abortion and giving answers that might not be wholly satisfying to religious conservatives.
A society needs its morality as it needs a government and it is therefore, for the sake of self protection, entitled to 'use the law to preserve morality in the same way as it uses it to safeguard anything else that is essential to its existence' (Devlin 1965, p. 11).
It was a major task of Hume's philosophy — particularly as presented in the Treatise — to reconstruct Hobbes's secular, scientific account of morality while at the same time avoiding the extreme (undiluted) elements of moral scepticism and egoism present in it.
Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.
