http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/25/the-impossibility-of-secular-judgment/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/25/the-impossibility-of-secular-judgment/comment-page-1/#comment-8809 Sean Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:26:04 +0000 http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/?p=542#comment-8809 Well, I haven't read the piece you refer to, but this sounds pretty typical. It is true that most/all social decisions require some kind of values or weightings. The question is why we should allocate special attention to values *just* because they are associated with a religion. I'd like to see someone answer that without tying themselves into knots or saying something logically equivalent to 'because God said so'. Well, I haven’t read the piece you refer to, but this sounds pretty typical. It is true that most/all social decisions require some kind of values or weightings. The question is why we should allocate special attention to values *just* because they are associated with a religion. I’d like to see someone answer that without tying themselves into knots or saying something logically equivalent to ‘because God said so’.

]]> http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/25/the-impossibility-of-secular-judgment/comment-page-1/#comment-8808 Simon Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:48:57 +0000 http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/?p=542#comment-8808 Every political debate has inherent value judgments. It simply sounds more clinical and authoritative to say: "I'm going by the numbers". Neutrality (or at least the appearance of it) is a great way of avoiding the label of "ideologue". Every political debate has inherent value judgments. It simply sounds more clinical and authoritative to say: “I’m going by the numbers”. Neutrality (or at least the appearance of it) is a great way of avoiding the label of “ideologue”.

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