Darth InSidious

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-02/sam-harris-on-the-moral-landscape/

Strangely, I may want to get this book, even considering the author. The approach to morality he describes seems very Aristotelian and similar to my own. Interestingly, his reason for rejecting moral relativism is virtually the same reason I reject it; the extreme relativism of "everything goes" is totally dependent on the idea of a supreme law (and importantly, the lack of said law). As soon as you start using any other criterion for evaluating situations, such as justice, mercy, loyalty, temperance, etc, it becomes absolutely clear that relativism is a ghost of abandoned religion and not a consequence of a perspicuous view of the situation... I guess Sam has been reading his Nietzsche, Anscombe and Foot. I am glad at least one of them is not entirely polemical (and I find it humorous that he probably had to read the Scholastics some in order to develop his ideas).