This article relates and compares some important features of Western religious and secular morali... more This article relates and compares some important features of Western religious and secular morality by way of surveying the debate over different answers to the question whether morality depends on religion in some significant way. The three main ways examined are whether morality depends on religion for an objective foundation, whether morality depends on religion for its content, and whether morality depends on religion for motivation. What emerges is that while religion can provide an objective foundation, a worthy content, and an admirable motivation for those who accept its distinctive theological claims, secularists can provide plausible, if debatable, alternatives to a theological foundation, as well as a moral content and motivation that can have interesting overlaps with those of religious ethics.
... The fifth and last thesis is the pop-ulist one. ... It will be remade and reordered to fulfil... more ... The fifth and last thesis is the pop-ulist one. ... It will be remade and reordered to fulfill the divine purpose." The prophets specifically assured God's redemption for ani-mals in a peaceable kingdom where the lion and the lamb will lie down together (Isaiah 1 1). They announce ...
This article relates and compares some important features of Western religious and secular morali... more This article relates and compares some important features of Western religious and secular morality by way of surveying the debate over different answers to the question whether morality depends on religion in some significant way. The three main ways examined are whether morality depends on religion for an objective foundation, whether morality depends on religion for its content, and whether morality depends on religion for motivation. What emerges is that while religion can provide an objective foundation, a worthy content, and an admirable motivation for those who accept its distinctive theological claims, secularists can provide plausible, if debatable, alternatives to a theological foundation, as well as a moral content and motivation that can have interesting overlaps with those of religious ethics.
... The fifth and last thesis is the pop-ulist one. ... It will be remade and reordered to fulfil... more ... The fifth and last thesis is the pop-ulist one. ... It will be remade and reordered to fulfill the divine purpose." The prophets specifically assured God's redemption for ani-mals in a peaceable kingdom where the lion and the lamb will lie down together (Isaiah 1 1). They announce ...
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