The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language an altered perspective, for a group of phenomena that tradition tended to refer to with such words as 'spirituality', 'piety', 'morality', 'ethics' and 'asceticism'. If the manoeuvre succeeds, the conventional concept of religion, that ill-fated bugbear from the prop studios of modern Europe, will emerge from these investigations as the great loser. Certainly intellectual history has always resembled a refuge for malformed concepts - and after the following journey through the various stations, one will not only see through the concept of 'religion' in its failed design, a concept whose crookedness is second only to the hyper-bugbear that is 'culture'.
Peter SloterdijkTag: morality ethics religion spirituality culture piety asceticism practising
All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that are notoriously negative towards women.
Roberto HogueTag: morality sex religion chastity mysogyny sexual-tension religious-extremism sexual-repression prudence mysogynistic religious-abuse
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.
Isidor Isaac RabiTag: science love existence knowledge morality world humanity expression admiration understanding meaning culture aim nobel-laureate dimension esthetics
Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time?
James PlunkettTag: morality
One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.
Una McCormackWe are our own worst enemy.
Una McCormackTag: politics morality philosophy
Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.
Aphra BehnTag: morality religion sin saint
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.
Don CupittTag: morality ethics hate tyranny values justification cruelty objectivism humanitarian divine-command-theory
In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ...
Aldous HuxleyTag: morality ethics-and-moral-philosophy
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.
Robert GravesTag: power morality corruption ruling livia
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