The analysis of the failure of secular ethics sounds like something I just read in Jonathan Haidt’s book Happiness Hypothesis. The western approach to ethics went from virtues, proverbs, fables, maxims and role models to unworkable utilitarianism and lowest common denominator human rights. This may be good for the legal system but it is not how people actually make decisions in their lives.
The analysis of the failure of secular ethics sounds like something I just read in Jonathan Haidt’s book Happiness Hypothesis. The western approach to ethics went from virtues, proverbs, fables, maxims and role models to unworkable utilitarianism and lowest common denominator human rights. This may be good for the legal system but it is not how people actually make decisions in their lives.
And yes, sounds like the right diagnosis. Odd, because almost no human society has ever lived this way, and we somehow talked ourselves into thinking it's the only moral way to live.
I suspect future historians will have field day with us.
The analysis of the failure of secular ethics sounds like something I just read in Jonathan Haidt’s book Happiness Hypothesis. The western approach to ethics went from virtues, proverbs, fables, maxims and role models to unworkable utilitarianism and lowest common denominator human rights. This may be good for the legal system but it is not how people actually make decisions in their lives.
Love Haidt. I need to read that book.
And yes, sounds like the right diagnosis. Odd, because almost no human society has ever lived this way, and we somehow talked ourselves into thinking it's the only moral way to live.
I suspect future historians will have field day with us.