Hello All,
Dr. Bernstein is a well known scholar on Objectivism and will be presenting a talk on Religion Vs. Morality
Religion is winning the culture wars because it seems to answer the common misconception that morality is relative and, as such offers us no guidance for living our lives. But religion quite literally gives us no earthly reason to accept its code of morality. Do our options in ethics really boil down to no guidance at all vs. pie in the sky? Or can we discover an absolute morality for living on this earth by means of reason?
In his upcoming lecture, “Religion vs. Morality”, Andrew Bernstein argues that we can, through reason, discover the proper code of morality, and that it offers us practical guidance for living our lives. The talk will be at 7:30 pm at 309 Sewall Hall on Feb 7th, this Thursday.
Summary
Conventionally, most people believe that morality can only be based in religious faith that in a world without God no principles of right and wrong could exist. Related to this, philosophers have long held that no objective, fact-based, rational code of values is possible. Regarding both points, this talk shows that the exact opposite is true. The purpose of morality is to guide human life on earth and religion is utterly incapable of it. Flourishing life requires a code of secularism, rationality, egoism and freedom. Religious faith clashes with every principle of a proper moral code, and, as such, has led, and can only lead to, hell on earth.
About Andrew Bernstein
Dr. Bernstein is a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Marist College; he also teaches at SUNY Purchase (which selected him Outstanding Teacher for 2004) and formerly at Pace University, and Marymount College (which selected him Outstanding Teacher for 1995). Dr. Bernstein lectures regularly at American universities and appears frequently on the radio talk shows. His op-eds have been published in such newspapers as The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Daily News, and The Houston Chronicle. Dr. Bernstein is the author of three Ayn Rand titles for CliffsNotes: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, and Anthem. He also authored Penguin’s Teacher’s Guide to The Fountainhead, and The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire.
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