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The Metaphysics of Consciousness, the collected papers of an RIP conference held at Edinburgh, has just been published by the CUP.

Ethics and the Bible -- James Rachels

Posted in Think on 21/06/2010 - 12:27

To what extent can we rely on what the Bible has to say about morality?

Many try to justify their moral positions  -- whether on murder, infanticide, homosexuality or abortion -- by appealing to the Bible, but to what extent can we rely on what the Bible says about morality?  In this paper from a recent issue of THINK, James Rachels raises questions about the legitimacy of such Biblical justifications.

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