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Mr Fukuyama treats it as the basis for morality and rights.
If religion doesn't make us automata, does the secular world offer a better basis for morality and "true" human rights?
In the created world the deity is the basis for morality and its promise that being good leads to good results.
For this to happen, though, we must recognize that selfishness (even of the enlightened sort) is ultimately a poor basis for morality and introduce a new philosophy based on the values of compassion, aesthetic sensibility and humaneness (ren) instead.
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The paper explores the significance of Darwinian evolution for morality and moral theory.
Conservative thinkers from Francis Fukuyama to Richard Pipes have drawn on evolutionary psychology to support ideas like a natural human desire for private property and a biological basis for morality.
"It must answer questions about living without God, face issues concerning forces beyond our control as well as our own responsibility, find a satisfying way of thinking about what we may know and what we cannot know, affirm a secular basis for morality, point to ways of coming to terms with death and explore what hope might mean today".
Xunzi singled out the cognitive function of the heart-and-mind (xin), or human rationality, as the basis for morality.
For example, at least one item was needlessly long, complex, and had very low item variance explained (0.094) relative to other items in the construct (i.e., "If human beings are solely the product of chance, meaningless forces, then one can rightly question the value of man, the significance of life, and whether there is any basis for morality".
Today, Mr. Lieberman continually calls on the Almighty and asserts that religion is the only true basis for morality, a claim that makes us very uneasy here.
He describes these feelings as "moral endowments" that "lie at the basis of morality" and as "subjective conditions of receptivity to the concept of duty" (MM 6 399).
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