
DO WE NEED MORALITY?
by Kenan Malik
The philosopher Joel Marks caused a stir recently with an essay in the New York Times. Called ‘Confessions of an ex-moralist’, the essay explained how Marks had come to realize that there is nothing objective about morality and that moral choices are simply subjective preferences: A friend had been explaining to me the nature of her belief in God. At one point she likened divinity to the beauty of a sunset: the quality lay not in the sunset but in […]
Categories: Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: amoralism, ethics, jean katz, moral nihilism, religion, russell blackford, sam harris, secularism