Odds and Ends
Alan Donagan, 19 April 1990
Ethics after Babel: The Languages of Morals and their Discontents
by Jeffrey Stout.
Beacon, 338 pp., $27.50, June 1988,0 8070 1402 8 Show More
by Jeffrey Stout.
Beacon, 338 pp., $27.50, June 1988,
“... as sinners, although it is left dark how they offend if Aquinas did not. Stout sheds a little light on this question in elucidating what it is for a moral proposition to be true: ‘I have no trouble,’ he writes, ‘with the idea of a culture-transcendent Moral Law if it commits us merely to such notions as ... that there are moral truths ... The ... ”