Semester after semester, I embarked on helping students to appreciate that morally relevant decisions are not a matter of personal preference, and I struggled to enable them to consider that moral judgments cannot simply be borrowed from an alleged moral authority – be it God, some political leader, or a famous media pundit. Then, one […]
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