i might sound like i am always promoting him but i cant help remarking that all the discussions on atheism and morality and ethics take me back to Dostoyesky.... in the Brothers karamazov.... esp when Ivan asks Alyosha...' If you had to torture just one child... one innocent child to ensure peace in the whole world, and make your whole fabric of your fair world rest on the torturing of that child would you do it?.... i havent put it correctly worded but thats the whole sense of it......
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:20 PM, pol.science kid <[email protected]>wrote: > wow.... thank you for posting this Rigs... something to qusetion my own > weak uninformed stands with... that line of Socrates"Do Gods love something > because it is holy or is it holy because Gods love it".... a friend said > it.. i mean it came up in a discussion and i didnt know it was socrates;-) > ... but anyways.... about what Joel says... well actually no i cant see > ethics without morality... so i am not too sure... need to give it more > thought in the shower.... > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:29 PM, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> By Joel Marks- plus reader comments >> >> >> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/confessions-of-an-ex-moralist >> > > > > -- > EverComing > -- EverComing
