178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality — Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Enlightenment and the Social World
We have a newtonian mechanical universe that seems to work pretty well in terms of making predictions. Why can't we apply these to the social world? Maybe the social world is something like a machine. The political system can be like a machine if we can tease out the, ah, the causal vectors. And then we can make predictions and then design a society that's going to be a ideally structured so it doesn't suffer from 30 years war or witch crazes.
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