The logic of values: On moral incommensurability and its consequences – The Mail & Guardian

The logic of values: On moral incommensurability and its consequences – The Mail & Guardian

Let me start with a tale.  Johan and Arturo are neighbours who share nearly everything: language, community, even the same street address. Yet they inhabit fundamentally different moral universes. One believes in human dignity, the other rejects it entirely. Arturo discovered the Marquis de Sade in late adolescence, devouring Juliette and The 120 Days of Sodom. He embraced the Sadean libertine doctrine that humans exist only for another’s pleasu…