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Getting Real About Right and Wrong

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ARE GOOD AND EVIL IN SOME SENSE REAL? Or is one man’s merit another man’s poison? Such questions haunt many of us, and confusion on the subject buttresses influential appeals to religion. After all, if we can’t say what makes an act right or wrong, how can we deny that moral judgments are a matter of taste?

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