For thousands of years, people have debated the objective standard of morality. Is there such a thing? If so, what is it? And how can we know it?
Is it “Might makes right,” as the Sophists claimed? Or “the Form of the Good” as Plato imagined? Or “God’s will,” as Jews, Christians, and Muslims submit?
Is it selfless service to others, as altruists declare? …
