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Doing the Right Thing: Making Moral Choices in a World Full of Options is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to author Scott B. Rae in Doing the Right Thing, our culture is in an ethical mess because we've neglected moral training and education. This book proposes that there is such a thing as moral truth, that it can be known, and that it can be put into practice. Looking specifically at the areas of medicine, the marketplace, public life, education, and the family, Rae shows how foundational...

truth, but as opinion or belief. So maybe we need to go back and explore this idea of truth further. Truth is, to put it simply, correspondence to reality. Philosopher Neal Plantinga explained it this way: People sometimes wonder what truth is. Well, truth is a property of a claim. You say it’s raining today, and if it is in fact raining, then your statement is true. It’s a relation of a claim to reality, a right relation, and we can know it. We can know truth, and we can know falsehood. Obviously
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