Today, I would like to offer a word of thanks to Nadya Suleman. In case you haven't heard, Suleman is the 33-year-old California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets after undergoing in-vitro ...

Someone who believes in a real morality may be faced with the following challenge: How can you claim that there is a real morality (absolute, objective and universally binding on all people)? You say ...

Four years before he was hoisted to Speaker of the House, a smooth-faced Representative Paul Ryan declared, “If you ask me what the biggest problem in America is, I’m not going to tell you debt, ...

Is Terrorism a Midterm Sleeper Issue? Audio By Carbonatix Moral absolutism presents its own dangers. As a young conservative, I was taught to despise something we were taught to call “moral relativism ...

While the concept of respecting diverse perspectives is important, if you accept moral relativism without challenging its validity, then it can pose challenges to Christian principles. For example, ...

The existence of ethical conflict, so obvious and so painful in our experience, has led some to question whether there is any common basis at all for ethical judgment. In this view, commonly called ...

Many Catholics have learned how to refute the idea that there is no absolute truth—what is called global relativism. It’s pretty straightforward: if global relativism is true, then there is at least ...

"Isn't all morality relative?" I often get this question from students, as there seems to be a fairly pervasive acceptance of moral relativism in much of our culture these days. However, the answer to ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Suppose you believe abortion is permissible.

A small cash gift at a client’s wedding is expected in some markets but would look suspiciously like bribery in ...

"Isn't all morality relative?" I often get this question from students, as there seems to be a fairly pervasive acceptance of moral relativism in much of our culture these days. However, the answer to ...