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re: Secular Moral Values

Alice doubts the existence of "secular moral values" and then admits:

I do think the values of some religions are more sensible than the values of others.

What does that mean? Does reasonableness matter? Does it help us to determine what's right? Don't we have to appeal to some mystical commandments to know what's right? If you don't think so, then you believe in "secular moral values".

If your claim is merely that religion has played an important historical role in the development of moral philosophy, then you're right. If you claim that religion is necessary (or even reliably helpful) to pursue morality, then I think you're wrong.

Religions are powerful mechanisms for developing and transmitting moral ideas (some good, and some bad). But, I think that there are better ways to pursue the truth.

Gil

by Gil on Wed, 10/20/2004 - 04:01

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