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Introduction

What Explains Moussaoui's Actions?

Clarence Darrow

A Presentation by Ronald Pies, MD

Clearly, normativity is natural, in that ethical rules or norms are based in human biological needs and innate psychological dispositions, modulated by culture.  However, in evaluating the rightness of these norms, we can only use as criteria some subset of these very same norms.  If we are ethical naturalists, there isn’t a value-free Archimedean point outside them from which we can determine which moral rules we ought to subscribe to.

Irreconcilable differences

Commentary