NICOLE DEL ROSARIO CUUNJIENG
Moving from revelation to evolution as the basis of one’s understanding of the human world makes ambiguous the place of morality. Consequently, morality’s grounding and terms often seem to rest upon no more than the need for cooperation in order to sustain society, which is not morality at all but rather necessity and self-interest. Naturally we wish to survive and wish for some others to survive with us—the two being linked—but what moral valence does this wish have in a non-religious universe? If we admit utilitarianism and pluralism, does it make impossible any absolute terms with which to construct conceptions of good and evil?