Why do we want to be good? | Ece Temelkuran, Alison Milbank, Peter Sjöstedt-H
Philosophy For Our Times
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Canchristianity Leave Religion Behind?
The morality that we have in the west, especially in england, is a very much contingent upon christianity. Even when people confess to be atheists, many of the values we have are still based on religion. But i don't think necessarily sal this as e, a something to lament. I mean, he talks about an active nihilism, which is emancipatory. In other words, one frees oneself from certain moral dogmas and er guilt and forms of behaviour. One is free to create one's own table of values. And so y, i think you can well, the question is, canshod morality leave religion behind?
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