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Article: Leading Article: The lesson is that morality is unteachable
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 28, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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An A-level in morality. Just pause for a moment and consider
the preposterousness of such a suggestion. It is only in the
fevered circumstances of our present "periodical fit" of
morality-talk that it is not instantly blown out of the water.
Whose morality? John Knox's or Kant's? Are marks to be awarded for
the correct answer to questions such as: was Abraham immoral for
not cleaving to a two-up, two-down family structure, or (the kind
of economic-structural question our new moralists are none too keen
to have posed), is it right and proper that the distribution of
wealth and income should have become more unequal during the past