Ethics and Morality: Advancing Toward the Moral Brink

What a world! The phrase 21st century is already a yawn, perhaps because all the hype has dulled our senses. Yet at the same time, we feel bewildered and bamboozled by the sheer speed, volume and implications of societal and scientific change. With all this progress are we advancing to the moral brink?

How can we manage to take it all in or make sense of where it's taking us? Will we be able to keep our balance--or even rediscover our bearings? Perhaps we sometimes yearn for some kind of personal compass--something secure, accurate and trustworthy that we could rely on in a sea of changing ethics and moral values in society.

In particular, the accelerating pace of scientific advances View the rest of this article