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Quotes from Evolutionary Theory and Theological Ethics — John E. Hare

born 1949 United Kingdom

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The idea of obligation is rationally unstable without the accompanying idea of a sufficiently good and powerful obligator to give the command and sustain the order in which the command is observed.

Evolutionary Theory and Theological Ethics (2012)

It is basically a bad idea to take some area of human thought and experience that has been the locus of careful analyses and subtle distinctions for centuries, and start again, as it were, from scratch. What in fact happens when this is done is that some ideas from that tradition re-emerge, but are isolated from the context in which they were embedded in the preceding conversation.

Evolutionary Theory and Theological Ethics (2012)

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