A question has been raised in ethics about right and wrong or ethical and unethical. How do we know the ethical merit or otherwise of an act? Ethical theories attempt to answer this question with the help of reason or general principles applicable to individual cases. For instance, Kant attempts to answer it with the help of what he calls “Categorical Imperatives” or rational principles. Utilitarianism answers this question with the help of the maxim, “Greatest good of the greatest number”. However, reason is not the source of basic ethical truth as demonstrated by a number of experiments in Continue reading...