Sunday 10 March 2013

'Godless Morality' by Richard Holloway - a comment

What interested me about Richard Holloway's book was the notion of 'ethical jazz'. The idea of treating morality as something that could be taught in a different way. It's a common idea amongst humanists and atheists of a certain ilk to consider either a good moral philosophical education, or a new kind of scientific approach (a la Sam Harris) to be the way to teach morality to a new generation of youngsters who don't accept the old religious texts as a ground for ethics. Richard Holloway's idea seems to be that it's a different kind of skill. I suspect MacIntyre might approve.

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