Ethics: Out with the Old

In a recent CNN.com article Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate discuss our culture's moral bankruptcy within a world of technological riches.

I love this angle of demonstrating that we need a moral revolution in this country - in fact in the entire world - by showing the numerous significant benefits mankind has reaped through the advancement of science and political philosophy, while our ethics remain stuck in the ancient past.

By contrasting the state of the world's ethics against science, technology and politics the authors make a relatively abstract and difficult subject much more tangible and relevant for those that may find philosophical discussions of little interest. As one recognizes the importance of advanced theories in science and political philosophy it is hard not to ignore the possibility that the world's ethics may deserve a second look.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/16/brook.moral.code.outdated/index.html?eref=ie8slice_topstories