Are Philosophers and Scientists Studying the Same “Morality”?

“The obvious truth is that the moment any matter has passed through the human mind it is finally and for ever spoilt for all purposes of science.”G.K. Chesterton (Heretics) For most of humanity’s intellectual history, ethics, as a field of study in the Western tradition, was solely a philosophical enterprise. Within the first few centuries of the birth of Christianity, ethics acquired and...