Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker

Terrific piece by James Wood, including Philip Kitcher on the message Plato's "Euthyphro" should convey to those who think you can't be good without God (this "turns morality into God's plaything") and Tom Nagel counseling that we should "approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair." Wood's comment on Nagel: that's "cold comfort in the middle of the night."

Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker

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