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The Psychology of Compassion

The conflict of active and passive urgency in the normal personality and the relationship of that conflict to root/branch intellectual type and past/future motivational orientation. Let me start with… more →

A BOOK IN PROGRESS [PART 17]: SCIENCE, NIHILISM & MORALITY — 3 comments

Kenan Malik wrote 10 months ago: In the series of extracts I am publishing from my book-that-is-almost-finished on the history of mor … more →

Tags: ethics, History of Moral Thought, Science, atheism, Morality, Euthyphro dilemma, moral nihilism, Emotivism, Alex Rosenberg

Morality, Evolution and the Primary Impulse

naturalpantheist wrote 11 months ago: I wanted to do a post on ethics and morality. Many people say that if you don’t believe in God, you … more →

Tags: philosophies, Thoughts, Pantheism, Pantheist, Science, Naturalistic Pantheist, Scientific Pantheist, Scientific Pantheism, naturalistic pantheism

On the Moral Error Theory: The Argument from Evolution — 7 comments

Tim wrote 1 year ago: “Morality is a collective illusion foisted upon us by our genes”—Michael Ruse [The following was pre … more →

Tags: Epistemology, ethics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Psychology, moral error theory, evolutionary epistemology, Richard Joyce, Michael Ruse

Can atheists distinguish between right and wrong actions? — 7 comments

Wintery Knight wrote 1 year ago: Take a look at two atheists who try to affirm that morality is simultaneously objective and subjecti … more →

Tags: News, Postmodernism, Moral Relativism, Evolution, Christianity, Morality, Pluralism, Religious Pluralism, Reason

Can a person who opposes religion still be moral? — 7 comments

Wintery Knight wrote 2 years ago: Here’s Casey Luskin’s analysis of Harvard evolutionary psychologist Marc D. Hauser, from … more →

Tags: Commentary, Atheism, Evolution, Morality, Evil, ethics, Right, Good, Wrong

Morality: From Where? — 22 comments

Sherry wrote 3 years ago:   I ran into an article the other day, that seemed to support my contention that morality is indepen … more →

Tags: human biology, Evolution & Science, Religion, Creationism, fundamentalism, God & Religion, Philosophy, Sociology, Theology

The Modern Problem of Goodness — 3 comments

Jeff Carreira wrote 3 years ago: American philosophy was a product of the Modern Age that had its precursor with the Italian Renaissa … more →

Tags: John Dewey, Modernism

Evolutionary Ethics and Karma — 10 comments

Jeff Carreira wrote 3 years ago: A continuous view of the universe seems to inherently evoke an ethical compulsion. When the boundari … more →

Tags: John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce

Why Free Will Doesn't Matter — 2 comments

Tim Dean wrote 4 years ago: By Tim Dean Free will is an illusion. There, I said it. Now, let’s move on. For it matters not … more →

Tags: Morality, Free Will, Illusion, illusionism, metaphysics, Choice, smilansky, Humanity, error theory

Impartial Benevolence — 4 comments

shad wrote 4 years ago: I enjoyed a lecture at Lehigh University tonight. The presenter, Professor John Hare of Yale Univers … more →

Tags: Lehigh, Theology, Immanuel Kant, kant, Lehigh University, John Hare, Professor John Hare, Yale University, impartial benevolence

Naturalism & Morality ::: An Absurd Combination

T h e o • p h i l o g u e wrote 4 years ago: This guy says we have to make room in our materialistic, secular, “all we are is matter in mot … more →

Tags: secular morality, Evolution and Ethics, Science and Ethics, Free Will, free will morality, Libertarian Free Will, causality and free will, naturalism and morality, religion and science


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