The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education: We are no more a slave to nature in reasoning than we are in morality. Few people would argue that we are genetically programmed to be moral. We may be hard-wired to do things that increase the survival value of our genes, like killing our rivals when no one is looking, but we do not do them, because they are unethical. If we can make such a choice in morals, why not also with reason?