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The Limits of Morality Shelly Kagan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Some things are so predictable that you can very nearly set your clock by them. In his short but powerful Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals (Groundwork from here on), Immanuel Kant articulates the grounding principles for a moral theory that strives to articulate the necessary conditions for the possibility of morality. I'm not sure, for at least four reasons. Emma Burnell says that politics has to be about morality. Morality is weak against power. Asserting that something is right doesn't make it right. So yes, let's acknowledge the limits of science and agree that when it comes to morality and ethics there is no straightforward way of deciding what is “right.” There are no absolutes in such areas. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Is our market economy shifting to a market society where nearly everything can be bought and sold and how might such a shift affect our concepts of morality, responsibility, and citizenship? In What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, Sandel looks upon other people's purchases and frowns. If there is any moral truth at all, it is that the mass murder of innocent civilians is wrong. If we define morality…no, if man re-defines morality then the boundaries become elastic and nebulous . In this topic, we will familiarise ourselves with the debate over the moral limits of the law and with some of the controversial cases and intricate concepts it involves, and consider the weaknesses of some classical attempt to address it. Race, Intelligence and the Limits of Science: Reflections on the Moral Absurdity of “Racial Realism”. District Court Judge, Vaughn Walker, overturnedCalifornia's Proposition 8 which changed theCalifornia's Constitution to define marriage to be a union only between a man and a woman.