RELG 271 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 — Sept 14, 2015- As Evolving Moral Ethos
11 Sep 2016
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Lecture 2 sept 14, 2015: as evolving. People have a change in their moral stance, in their moral beleifs. Bruce macdougal: sites of discourse condemnation compassion condonation celebration. That what is celebrated is not just acceptable but in fact is good. The first form of association naturally instituted for the satisfaction of daily recurrent needs is thus the family (aristotle, the politics, 1. 2). zoon politikon response to plato state and family fundamental natural impulse toward multiplication. There"s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation what"s done in private between adults doesn"t concern the criminal code. -- trudeau to reporters on the decriminalization of homosexual acts. The idea, them, that the civil government should as its own discretion, penetrate and pervade the family and the household is a great and pernicious mistake. Chastity is the most unpopular of the christian virtues.
