Can nature serve as a moral guide? (includes commentaries)(In Search of the Good Society: The Work of Daniel Callahan)

From: The Hastings Center Report | Date: November 1, 1996| Author: Kass, Leon R.; Norton, Bryan G.; Donnelley, Strachan | Copyright information

However declasse, I have never quite given up the hope that nature might put in a reappearance in ethics. Unfortunately, it is hard to think of a once-robust tradition - that of natural law or naturalism - that is much more down at the heel. Even pragmatism and stoicism, also long pronounced dead, have staged a recent comeback. Is there any hope that nature can once again serve as a moral guide?

The principal modern obstacle has been, most broadly, the belief that given ...

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