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Ethics

The Need for Authenticity

Innes Crellin attacks the “Anglo-Saxon” approach to moral philosophy.

Those who seek some meaning in the concept of ‘morality’ find it confused and distorted. What it means seems to vary from one authority to another. In the media and in popular usage, the word has assumed a rhetorical flavour that has disguised any real meaning which it may once have had. This, of course, is not a bad thing – it has forced us to focus again on what our intentions are when we use the word. I believe that if we want to pin down this elusive concept we need, firstly, to look at its converse ‘immorality’.

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