ABSTRACT
In present times there is enormous interest in values issues and in the question of how we may attempt to resolve our differences over them. What Thomas Nagel (1979) calls the great ‘mortal questions’, such as the rights and wrongs of euthanasia, genetic cloning, and reconciliation between a nation’s ethnic groups, appear on the front pages of our newspapers and on the television almost daily. It is inevitable that students in our schools will want help in coming to decide what they ought to think, how they ought to judge, which way they ought to behave in respect of these and those other values issues ‘of great pith and moment’, with which their lives, and that of our community, are increasingly beset.
