Abstract

There are those who think that moral life and moral reflection today are in complete disarray. What is sometimes called "diversity" or "pluralism" is read as nothing but fragmented confusion, Babel. "Relativism," "Incommensurability," "Nihilism" are used as polemical weapons in contemporary ethical debates. After the demise of the varieties of "foundationalism," one wonders what is left of ethics as a philosophic discipline. Furthermore, most philosophers are deeply suspicious of the very idea of a "religious ethics," or that theology has any role to play in the contemporary conversation about the nature and epistemological status of ethics.