Defining morality as necessarily absolute and objective is an illegitimate way to privilege religious morality, even as it continues to become less and less useful to people living in a modern world. Not only less useful, but also potentially harmful.
Read MoreRon Lindsay, CFI President, today posted this interesting blog “On shunning fellow atheists and skeptics“. Why I find it interesting is not really because...
Read MoreOne of the chapters in Bertrand Russell’s “Unpopular Essays” (1950) is “The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed”. In the essay, Russell criticises the tendency of those...
Read MoreRichard Mourdock is the latest in a sequence of Republican politicians to have said something offensive with regard to women and their rights over their own bodies. But when expressing outrage over the moral conservatism expressed by the likes of Mourdock, let’s try to be honest to the evidence – and not cherry-pick our examples to justify our prejudices.
Read MoreJust because it’s logically fallacious to dismiss someone’s argument simply because of some aspect of their character or circumstance does not mean that character and circumstance don’t inform arguments. In light of recent discussion on “liberal bullying”, we should beware the tendency to think someone wrong simply because they are privileged (or right because they are not) – but at the same time, remain aware of the politics surrounding these arguments, which sometimes give rise to quite plausible assumptions about epistemic virtue.
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