What Is the Best Account of Human Life?

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I'm intrigued all by what you said. I want to talk further with you about that, im but, ye, maybe in our next book. But better bit toote. What i'm asking maybe yot glad. James s let me just say this: We are fundamentally narrative creatures. And i think that is probably, though i haven't done the work myself, a, perhaps donald brown has. The question then is, what provides the best account of human life? Aa, science narrowly defined, rationalism. A, or naturalism, even more broadly defined. There are people, there are naturalists, who would agree with you that we have a problem with telling

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.