Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
But the imposition of morality onto science - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
While that amendment failed human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.