Articles for tag: Moral Relativism

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“Hidden Worldviews”

Hidden Worldviews: Eight Cultural Stories that Shape Our Lives. By Steve Wilkens and Mark L. Sanford. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2009, 978-0-8308-3854-7, 218pp, $22.00, paperback. Every Sunday, whether conscious of it or not, preachers engage in a conflict between clashing worldviews. The better we are able to recognize and understand the philosophies that form the ...

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What is a Fable?

A fable is literary genre that is usually very short and epigrammatic in nature, revealing by story’s end an instructive moral. The most famous writer of fables is Aesop, of course, and so successful was he that very few writers even attempt to take up the challenge of adding to the substantial canon attributed to ...

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Can Ethics Be Taught in the Classroom?

The concept of ethics is extremely broad, and any discussion of the subject will include a variety of influencing factors. Individuals and groups talk conveniently of ethics when it suits their purposes, but resistance is quick to appear when there is any talk of restricting choices and personal liberties. When it comes to teaching ethics ...

Book Review: Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry, by Ellen Israel Rosen

One of the most frustrating aspects of understanding sweatshops is how they came to exist in globalization. Abusive conditions are found in many industries in hundreds of countries around the world, but the sweatshop is notoriously identified in apparel and textiles. This brought scholar Ellen Israel Rosen to what may be the most accessible, but ...