Few philosophical questions strike as close to everyday life as this one. We argue about what’s fair at work, what’s just in politics, and what we owe to strangers. Underneath those arguments sits a deeper dispute: are there moral facts … Read More
It is in the absolute that the rationalism of the seventeenth century sought to found the rules of thought and action: Cartesian reason seeks “true natures” whose immutability is guaranteed by God himself; it is in God that Malebranche sees … Read More
In the last half of the nineteenth century, we often dreamed of creating a scientific morality. It was not enough to boast the educative virtue of science, the advantages which the human soul derives for its own perfecting of the … Read More
