Philosophy Cafe Event

- Time:
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Date:
- 3 November 2011
- Venue:
- John Hansard Gallery Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Lifelong Learning Team on 02380 59 7261 or email lifelonglearning@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Is morality objective?
It is often suggested that morality is merely subjective or relative: some point to the amount of disagreement over moral matters, while others claim that objective moral values would be mysterious entities, incompatible with the natural world as we know it. But when we are faced with a difficult ethical choice, it is very hard to believe that what is right or wrong just depends on what we or our society happens to approve of. So do we have reason to think morality subjective? Or can we make sense of an objective morality?