Truth Debate Guide

From PhiloWiki

• How do we know who is truly right and who is truly wrong?
• Is there absolute good and evil? Can religion be a foundation?
• What is the source of morality?

But where do we go from here?

• Without absolute good and evil, are we left with moral relativism? Or is there something else?
• Is it possible to build a successful political system based upon moral relativism? Or is such a nation-state doomed to failure?
• As Pope Benedict states, is there a dictatorship of moral relativism?
• If Europe continues on its secular path, will this accelerate a transition to an Islamic Eurabia?
• Even if moral relativism is true, why should we care ?

Can moral systems evolve without religion?

• Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one?
• What are the implications of the Golden Rule?
• What are the implications of Kant's categorical imperative?
• If the world were secular, would there be nothing more than the law of the jungle - might makes right?