RE: On Moral Authorities
November 18, 2016 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 10:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, it gets taught because a particularly myopic view of the divine has enjoyed cultural hegemony for a few thousand years. That makes it important regardless of it;s being a false dichotomy. Historically important. It has no other bearing or relevance to the subject at hand, since believers have long been able to escape the dillemma and it's not a dillemma at all to secular moral theory, which is also available to believers.
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