Moral Education, Objectively Speaking

Abstract

This is a paper on one of the perennial, really big questions of ethics – the question of “objectivity” in moral judgment. In plain words, that question is, “What sense, if any, can we make of our felt experience that some moral judgments and their concomitant actions are ‘better than’ others?” Despite appearing in different forms to different philosophers, its difficulty and centrality to moral experience has been recognized by most, resulting in a very rich and varied history even just in Western philosophy.