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Striving To Be Human: How can we be moral in the modern world?

Striving To Be Human: How can we be moral in the modern world?

Hill, Keith

Paperback

PhilosophyReligion General General Eastern Religions

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0473192632
ISBN13: 9780473192631
Publisher: Attar Books
Published: Jul 9 2018
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Striving To be Humanexamines what our moral values are, how we came to have them, and how we can add a spiritual dimension to them.

Westerners live in liberal, secular democracies. The religious and moral certainties of the past have lost their influence on us, replaced by liberal freedoms that have led to a culture of moral relativism. The plus about this is that it gives each of us the freedom to decide what is right and wrong. But if moral relativism considers all moral choices to be equal, as a culture what moral values do we end up collectively sharing? Is our morality no more than a grab-bag of values taken from consumerism, power politics, and self-interested ambition that justifies the view that we deserve whatever we can get, all softened by traditional religious ideas that it is good to be nice to others? Or is there is an objective scale of right and wrong that transcends our own individually-centred thoughts and feelings and that can definitely tell us what is moral and what is not?

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