I believe the first question for new reproductive technologies should not be whether it is "right" in some timeless, absolute moral sense, but why we might want to do it.

我认为，关于生育新技术的首要问题不应当是它在某种超时空的绝对道德意义上是否“正确”，而在于我们何以可能需要这种技术。

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Categorical moral reasoning locates morality in certain absolute moral requirements, certain categorical duties and rights, regardless of the consequences.

绝对主义道德推理认为，是否道德取决于特定的绝对道德准则，取决于绝对明确的义务与权利而不管后果如何。

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Do you believe that absolute moral truth exists?

你是否相信有绝对的道德真理存在吗？

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is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

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Categorical moral reasoning locates morality in certain absolute moral requirements, certain categorical duties and rights, regardless of the consequences.

绝对主义道德推理认为,是否道德取决于特定的绝对道德准则，取决于绝对明确的义务与权利，而不管后果如何。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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As often happens when absolute moral issues are discussed, the debate has produced some peculiar bedfellows.

ECONOMIST: Religion

If you preach absolute moral values, you will be held to absolute moral standards.

ECONOMIST: The Catholic church and paedophilia

Hitchens would often concede that he did believe in an absolute moral law- that people really should be good and nice to each other and respectful and peaceful.

FORBES: Christopher Hitchens, A Fighter To the End (1949 - 2011)