The Principle of Interchangeable Perspective

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I have to take your perspective, call it the principle of interchangeable perspective. It's not perfect, butit's something like, you know, rollss e in a veil of ignorance. I thinkim where i would go to try to figure out if that story is right. And anconocantian universal a principle of applying the rule to everybody - this idea seems to come up over and over and over religions. Even secular versions are a kind of variations on that which indicates that maybe it's like one of these platonic truths that are really there and we're all kind of discovering it as we go along.

In their book Science and the Good, professional philosophers James Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The conversation takes a decidedly interesting turn when Drs. Hunter and Nedelisky reveal that they are both theists and that their Christian worldview informs their thinking on moral issues. The three then dig into the weeds of the difference between religious and secular moral systems, the nature of God and morality, why a purely naturalistic approach to morality does not negate religion or even the existence of God (natural law could be God’s way of creating moral values), natural rights and rights theory, consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, progress in philosophy, why philosophers never seem to reach consensus on important subjects like morality, how to think about issues like abortion, why they believe in God and follow the Christian religion and yet reject Divine Command Theory, and much more.