Ethics is not a Place
Guy Kingston asked: It seems that Ethics is a growth industry. There are even advertisements in the newspapers for “professional ethicists”. Does this mean that we are getting more ethical? Are we at the place of which Plato dreamed, where “kings are philosophers and philosophers are kings”. Alas, the opposite seems to be true. The fact that so-called “experts” have to be employed to say what is ethical is just one sign that many people are increasingly incapable of telling…