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Section 4.1 added to online Beyondism   Message List  
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Section 4.1, Problems in Deriving Objective
Non-Relativistic Ethics from Stating a Fixed
Goal in a Changing World, has been added:
http://www.efn.org/~callen/ToC.htm#chapter4

From the summary paragraph:

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Our purpose in this section has been to clarify the inherent
principles in deriving moral values from a fixed goal in a changing
world. But, as mentioned in passing, there are also emotional
and "public relations" problems to be solved. Hitler in Mein Kampf,
and emotional writers of very different persuations elsewhere, have
equally tried to argue that science is unsatisfactory as a repository
of any popular faith because it is forever changing. That this
evolutionary movement dismays the political absolutist is perhaps as
it should be; but in the field of religion the call of the human
heart for ultimate certainty is to be respected, for that is the
meaning of religion. In the buffeting seas of immediate moral
conflicts a religion should give the emotional assurance and guidance
of an unwavering star. But this is what the basically fixed goal, for
those with imagination to see the adjustment to each changing local
scene in perspective, truly offers. Beyondism is a religion tied to
only one dogma — and that a scientific one — from which the
sentiments in all specific situations take their changing courses.
--


-Chris






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