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Ethics and the Sacred: Can Secular Morality Dispense with Religious Values?
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Richard Norman
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
27. Juni 2017
Abstract
In this paper I explore the role that the concept of the sacred can play in our moral thinking. I accept that the assertion that ‘human life is sacred’ can be one way of articulating the special value of individual human lives as in some sense inviolable. I cautiously allow that the idea of ‘sacred value’ might also apply to other things such as certain kinds of human commitments, uniquely precious art-works, and some other kinds of living things. In conclusion I offer reasons for resisting the claim, made especially by Roger Scruton, that the experience of the sacred, when properly understood, draws us ineluctably into a religious view of the world.
Published Online: 2017-06-27
Published in Print: 2017-05-24
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial
- Sacred Values Today
- Ethics and the Sacred: Can Secular Morality Dispense with Religious Values?
- Making Secular Sense of the Sacred
- Traditional Morality and Sacred Values
- Sacred Values and Interreligious Dialogue
- Protected Values and Other Types of Values
- Sacred Values in Secular Politics
- General Part
- Religion beyond Communicative Reason
- An Empirical Critique of Re-Sacralisation
- Comment on Steve Bruce
- The Requirements of Justice and Liberal Socialism
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editorial
- Sacred Values Today
- Ethics and the Sacred: Can Secular Morality Dispense with Religious Values?
- Making Secular Sense of the Sacred
- Traditional Morality and Sacred Values
- Sacred Values and Interreligious Dialogue
- Protected Values and Other Types of Values
- Sacred Values in Secular Politics
- General Part
- Religion beyond Communicative Reason
- An Empirical Critique of Re-Sacralisation
- Comment on Steve Bruce
- The Requirements of Justice and Liberal Socialism
