Why do we want to be good? | Ece Temelkuran, Alison Milbank, Peter Sjöstedt-H
Philosophy For Our Times
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Secondly, Religion Cannot Be Left Behind
Moralism in europe and the americas at least, is the creation of judeo christian values. Had it been otherwise, no one would v be woke. Equality comes from christian baptism. Brotherly love, sisterly love, equality humility, are all foreign to classical thinking and scandalous. Even the secular derives from the thought of augustine, a christian theologian. And the tools of the enlightenment, the belief in humankind, in the power of love, are christian. Or perhaps in the case of et islamic creations. Christianity fails to live up to its values, but they shape the failure.
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