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Originally Posted by merrylander
I gather 5 below was going on about morality and values. It just so happens that I am reading Paul Tillich's "Love, Power and Justice" and came across this passage;
“Ethics is the science of man's moral existence, asking for the roots of the moral imperative, the criteria of its validity, the sources of its contents, the forces of its realization. The answer to each of these questions is directly or indirectly dependent on a doctrine of being. The roots of the moral imperative, the criteria of its validity, the sources of its contents, the forces of its realization, all this can be elaborated only in terms of an analysis of man's being and universal being. There is no answer in ethics without an explicit or implicit assertion about the nature of being.”
It does of course require knowledge of ontology but there is food for thought.  |
I've tried and tried to seriously read Tillich, but I just can't get very far into it before my ADD kicks in and I'm thinking about the light switch in the bedroom that needs to be replaced. What I've absorbed is pretty good stuff...and honestly, the fact that the delusional bible thumping literalists pretty much consider Tillich to be an atheist makes him way good enough for me. As a subscriber to Spinoza's universal conceptions of god, I think I probably agree with a lot of Tillich. And with Bob Newhart who (I think) once said, "Everything is a crock, the only real thing is golf."