Would it be fair to summarize your thesis as “bad things happen when liberty is interpreted to mean license”?
There can be no liberty without self-restraint. And self-restraint must ultimately spring from morality — the sense of duty. And morality has a super-material origin that can’t be a matter of simply selecting the right governing “-ism”.
Would it be fair to summarize your thesis as “bad things happen when liberty is interpreted to mean license”?
There can be no liberty without self-restraint. And self-restraint must ultimately spring from morality — the sense of duty. And morality has a super-material origin that can’t be a matter of simply selecting the right governing “-ism”.
"And morality has a super-material origin that can’t be a matter of simply selecting the right governing '-ism'."
Exactly. Take it away, Voltaire: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
Not enough credit/blame for this dystopian world is given to the New Atheists, who took a hacksaw to the central pillar of Western Civilization. At least Dawkins realizes his error and is trying to make nice now, labeling himself a "cultural Christian." Nice sentiment; ain't gonna work. Can't find the quote now, but Nietzsche stated that Christian morality without Christianity would fail. There is nothing self-evident about it.
Here's Nietzsche's quote: "If you give up Christian faith, you pull the right to Christian morality out from under your feet. This morality is simply not self-evident: one has to bring this point home again and again to the English dimwits."
Would it be fair to summarize your thesis as “bad things happen when liberty is interpreted to mean license”?
There can be no liberty without self-restraint. And self-restraint must ultimately spring from morality — the sense of duty. And morality has a super-material origin that can’t be a matter of simply selecting the right governing “-ism”.
"And morality has a super-material origin that can’t be a matter of simply selecting the right governing '-ism'."
Exactly. Take it away, Voltaire: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
Not enough credit/blame for this dystopian world is given to the New Atheists, who took a hacksaw to the central pillar of Western Civilization. At least Dawkins realizes his error and is trying to make nice now, labeling himself a "cultural Christian." Nice sentiment; ain't gonna work. Can't find the quote now, but Nietzsche stated that Christian morality without Christianity would fail. There is nothing self-evident about it.
Here's Nietzsche's quote: "If you give up Christian faith, you pull the right to Christian morality out from under your feet. This morality is simply not self-evident: one has to bring this point home again and again to the English dimwits."