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Letters
Letters
The Moral Backlash • Epiphenomenalism Explained Away • Public Meditations • Theory of Evolution Is Not Science • Kant Misrepresented • Being Described • Crossword Puzzle
The Moral Backlash
Dear Editor: I read the articles on moral relativism in Issue 82 with some disbelief as to their seriousness. On the assumption that the writers are serious, I wonder how their views square with what I assume is their actual daily practice of trying to live in a way which involves some observance of ethical principles, and no doubt, of making ethical judgements themselves on the behaviours of others.
Peter Ellway
East Grinstead
Dear Editor: In Issue 82 we had five distinguished professors who want to see the final banishment of objective morality. Okay, so let’s wipe the whiteboard! It’s time to start again! We need to construct new codes of conduct for ourselves. None of your contributors advocated immorality – all seem to expect a continuation of what we now call moral behaviour, even after ‘the abolition of morality’.
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