Sunday, September 16, 2012

The Science of Good and Evil

In her work called "Some Moral Minima", Lenn Goodman suggests that certain actions such as murder, genocide, torture, slavery, rape, and terrorism (and there may well be more) are just plain wrong.  To present the universally applicable measure of what is or is not acceptable, Goodman presents several challenges to relativism.  In the following text, I will explore the validity of the argument by defining relativism, reviewing Goodman's explanations, and then giving a scientific understanding of destructive ability and creative capacity.