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If the assumption is correct that most people think ethical principles should be consistent,  evolutionary thinking challenges ethics because..

A person need not be religious to also be moral.  However,  in Western societies…

Virtue Ethics …

While Kant’s thoughts “proved” you could know  things of the phenomenal or natural world  with certainty they also suggested you could not know things beyond the natural world, like moral law even though he believed there was moral law. 

When thinking about ethics, what does the term “deference” mean?

Applied Ethics is concerned with applying ethical beliefs to real world problems

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Only a few days after the Civil War ended, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater by the actor

Southerners had no reason to feel that they were losing their political power because the Dred Scott decision forbade Congress from touching the issue of slavery.

Robert E. Lee understood that in order to swing the war in favor of the Confederacy and attain international recognition for the new republic, he must invade the North and win a crushing victory. He failed and was “defeated” at