Broadly speaking, ethical relativism contends that ethical rules are drawn from human experience and that what is right or wrong is dependent upon particular times and places. There are cultural ...

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What issue could be more important to a nation’s future than education? A country is about people. How Americans act, work, think, choose—and live—reflects their values. K-12 education, of course, is ...

Elvis. Tupac. The ivory-billed woodpecker. Sometimes it’s hard to let go and acknowledge when a celebrity or a species has left us. Christians find it particularly hard to come to terms with the ...

This is one of the questions Susan Neiman asks us to ponder in her book, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists. Neiman is an American philosopher who runs an international think tank in ...

When I first started college, one of the courses I took was an ethics class introducing the idea of moral relativism. The takeaway, as I recall, is there are no moral absolutes. I have often wondered ...