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178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality — Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

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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.

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