Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Morals without Religion

Are reason and individualism really enough to form proper moral values?
The real alternative ... is a morality of reason. Such a morality begins with the individual’s life as the primary value and identifies the further values that are demonstrably required to sustain that life. It observes that man’s nature demands that we live not by random urges or by animal instincts, but by the faculty that distinguishes us from animals and on which our existence fundamentally depends: rationality.

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