@bookstodon "In a way, both sides of the debate were directly and indirectly responding to World War II. The absurdity of wartime led many to the view that all this talk of principles, ideals, and values was bullshit. At the same time, the horrors of Nazism stirred many toward an even stronger moral sense. Evil was real. And any attempt to turn it into mere personal preference couldn’t last a minute outside the walls of academia." https://www.letustalkbooks.com/p/where-our-values-come-from
@ryanpendell@Stone1glo@bookstodon I read it a looong time ago but as I recall it touches on some of the things you wrote about but from the very different perspective of psychology. As a psychology book it is very dated but it is also super fascinating and really influenced my own thinking.