Is religion necessary for morality? Many people think it is outrageous, or even blasphemous,
to deny that morality is of divine origin. Either some divine being crafted our moral sense …

[Christianity] has enriched philosophy with far more definite and purer concepts than it had
been able to furnish before; but which, once they are there, are freely assented to by Reason …

I'm not going to discuss whether or not there is a God (that's something I'm argued for a lot
over the years), but simply whether if there is a God, that makes any difference to morality., I …

Reflection on religion inevitably involves consideration of its relation to morality. When great
evil is done to human beings, we may feel that something absolute has been violated. Can …

A normative ethical theory is a theory that tells us what is right and what is wrong. Somewhat
more fully and precisely, a normative ethical theory specifies what is obligatory, what is …

The word'religion'should not be interpreted here too narrowly--as a system of doctrine and
the ecclesiastical apparatus for preserving and promoting that system. That is not my …

“Without religious belief, without the Living God, there could be no adequate answer to the
persistently gnawing questions: What ought we to do? How ought I to live?.… Is this …

So far as morality is based upon the conception of man as a free agent who, just because he
is free, binds himself through his reason to unconditioned laws, it stands in need neither of …

It is sometimes thought that belief in God is rationally required of human beings, for without
such a religious belief moral beliefs are without any appropriate ground or rationale. Some …

In his' Lecture on Ethics', Wittgenstein spoke of experiences which he hoped would convey
to Ius audience a particular sense of absolute value. One of them was the experience of …