Author: Susana de Castro
Susana de Castro is professor of philosophy and education in the College of Education of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Contemporary Ethics and Liberal Democracy
Traditionally, philosophy and religion exhausted the subject of moral values. In times past, lawmakers striving to establish proper rules for society sought philosophical or theological justifications for their theories. Both philosophy and religion believed in foundational kinds of moral values—the sort of values that ought to be valid for all societies, since, it was held, …