Are We Trying to Get Rid of Psychopaths?

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Christopher bomb argues that the sense of guilt evolved as a mechanism for social harmony. He asks: How could it be an accident if feelings we have because they help to survive happen to mab perfectly on to this realm of right and wrong, good and bad? The big challenge for the naturalistic programme is how to account for all these distinctively human capacities which don't lend themselves to the naturalistic ebolutionary story very well.

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.