Author: David Tribe
David Tribe is a leading secular humanist now in Australia and formerly in the United Kingdom, where he was chair of Humanist Group Action, president of the National Secular Society, and editor of The Freethinker. He is an honorary associate of Rationalist International. His books include The Rise of Mediocracy and Questions of Censorship (both from Allen &, Unwin, 1975 and 1973).
On Ethics and Morality
Who would have thought in 1972 that “ethics” would ever become fashionable? That was when my Nucleoethics: Ethics in Modern Society was published in the same sociological series as Ger maine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (1970). Today, ethics is everywhere. The hitherto-obsolescent Hippocratic Oath for doctors has been joined by codes of ethics for advertisers, …