Can't We Make Moral Judgements? book cover

Short answer, yes we can. In fact, we can’t not. Being non-judgmental, for relativist or individualist reasons, is a moral stance, and even the most individualist thinker has their limits. Thinkers opposed to conventional morality – Nietzsche, Sartre – are highly moralistic, but their judgements are different. Midgley returns to her usual position, that we are social creatures, that morality has a strong public aspect, and that we must make moral judgements, so we should get better at understanding them, and make them more deliberately.