From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!tim
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: Morality simplified [somewhat serious]
Article-I.D.: unc.4912
Posted: Wed Apr  6 15:13:48 1983
Received: Thu Apr  7 01:26:13 1983
References: watmath.4841

	From duke!decvax!utzoo!watmath!djhawley Tue Apr  5 12:50:28 1983
	Subject: Re: Morality simplified [somewhat serious]

	Those who hold Reason supreme are forced to deny what they can't
	understand.

    	- Morality
    	- Human freedom ( vs determinism )

	to name some biggies.

	Any comments ?

The fact that you can't understand these things doesn't mean that they
are not apprehensible by reason. I feel that I understand morality on
a basis of reason; as for human freedom vs. determinism, I have never
been able to get a clear definition of the issue. Obviously, humans
make choices. The issue seems to revolve around the nature of those
choices in some way, but no one has ever been able to explain what
"freedom" means in this context. If it means some force outside the obser-
vational range of science, then I see no reason to deny it; I do have
to wait for some sort of evidence to accumulate, though.

What is the alternative to reason? Arbitrarily picking some belief
system and clinging to it no matter what? What fun.

Tim "Not A Materialist" Maroney