ABSTRACT
One of the man's books focuses on his travels to an uninhabited island off the northwest coast, to which he sails over rough Pacific seas and where he then spends time camping and exploring. The Ethicist has been particularly struck by this book. The Ethicist also knows that this outcry changes over time. Criticisms of patriarchy, for instance, constitute comparatively recent moral demands. And it is not hard to trace the shifting historical conditions that make such criticisms possible. Related developments in economic structure and political ideology create the historical possibilities of a women's liberation movement and the corresponding moral demands on men that are embodied in that movement. Ethical life is shifting, he believes, because global ecological interdependence now implies both personal and collective moral interdependence. The most mundane activities of our daily lives can affect the well-being of people throughout the world.
