What it means to be moral : why religion is not necessary for living an ethical life /

The author of Living the Secular Life deconstructs the arguments for a morality informed by religion, urging that major challenges like global warming and growing inequality are best approached from a framework of secular morality. In What It Means To Be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Livi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zuckerman, Phil (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, [2019]
Edition:First hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Why morality cannot be based on faith in God
  • Isms
  • Absence of evidence is evidence of absence
  • The insidiousness of interpretation
  • You will obey
  • Sally, Butch, and Plato's dilemma
  • The fundamentals of secular morality
  • What it means to be moral
  • Where do you get your morals?
  • The secular seven
  • Challenges to secular morality
  • Accounting for immorality
  • Genocidal century
  • Secular solutions
  • Moral relativism.