
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
00:00
The Quest for Morality
In the early mid 19 sixties into the early seventies, there was a renewed interest that we could return to this quest and maybe actually find the foundations morality. A scientific approach to morality sort of re emerged on to the scene in the seventies with socio logy down to the present. And it's a quest that is undulated in terms of it's of its interest, in the hope and the possibility that it actually misses a nut that could be cracked. Pa: The question that has animated the project from the beginning, from the early modern origins, is the same problem we face to day. It's the problem of pluralism.
Transcript
Play full episode