Like some of the philosophers we read about in our books I believe that morality and moral actions must be based on some objective truths. The moral relativist's claim about the nature of moral values – that they cannot be judged against any absolute truth – is usually a false one. I believe that an action's rightness or wrongness exists independent of human reason and human convention. One particularly important property of objective truths of this sort is that their existence is in no way dependent on any human knowledge of them; they are simply a fundamental part of the universe like mathematics. No one would argue that mathematical relationships did not exist before we discovered them, much less that they exist as they do because we invented them.
Moral relativism is the belief that no independent moral truth exists but that morality is defined, rather, by individual and cultural beliefs and conventions. Moral values of this type, whose validity would be resultant of their......

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Title: The Objective Nature Of Morality
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