Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is often praised for bringing gritty realism and deeper political themes to superhero ...

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and creating a substantial market for what National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty calls pro-life “realism.” The difficulty is that nobody can yet fully agree on what incrementalism means.

The “realism” Kissinger championed is a fancy ... We have heard boasts that Israel’s army is the most moral army in history. We have heard flat denials that there is famine in Gaza.

Moral realism is conventionally opposed to ethical relativism, which proposes that morality depends on the standards, norms and practices of particular times and places. Gabriel thus condemns ...

A Seminar on "Zhu Xi's Moral Realism: For and Against" Prof. Huang Yong at Chinese University of Hong Kong will come to host a seminar on "Zhu Xi's Moral Realism: For and Against". In Huang's course, ...

But, and this is a major difference, realism is not amoralism. Ignoring or underestimating moral questions is not realism, since these questions do arise and are part of "reality." In fact they ...

Another obvious target is former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whose recent comments urging peace talks with Moscow, a territorial compromise in Ukraine, and the need to avoid a permanent ...

It rejects utilitarianism, or the idea that what most think will make them happy is the most moral. Realism simply looks at what changes in reality. If your program to end Satanism results in more ...

Choices matter. And that’s where the moral failings of realism come in. Realists tend to conflate the interests of rulers with the interests of the ruled. It’s hard to find a sane analyst who ...

Choices matter. And that’s where the moral failings of realism come in. Realists tend to conflate the interests of rulers with the interests of the ruled. It’s hard to find a sane analyst who ...