{"id":1585,"date":"2025-06-10T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:47:19","slug":"ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three immediate thoughts re Roger\u2019s article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2025\/06\/10\/classical-liberalism-without-strong-gods-open-society-popper\/\">https:\/\/quillette.com\/2025\/06\/10\/classical-liberalism-without-strong-gods-open-society-popper\/<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. I remembered reading \u201c<em>Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers<\/em> (Appiah, 2006) years ago. A unifying moral liberal secular idea of how societies might function. \u00a0I remember recommending it to many friends. Quite bracing, I should re-read.<\/p>\n<p>1. There are moral lessons to be drawn from established religion. \u00a0The importance of an institutional mechanism for forgiveness in society. \u00a0Egalitarianism. \u00a0Charity. \u00a0Many of society\u2019s best ideas are distilled into religious tenets in admittedly simplistic but comprehensible forms. Don\u2019t throw out the baby with the bath water.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themontrealreview.com\/Articles\/Moral_Particulars_in_Literature.php\">https:\/\/www.themontrealreview.com\/Articles\/Moral_Particulars_in_Literature.php<\/a> Happened to read this in the same feed session, some coincidence, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three immediate thoughts re Roger\u2019s article\u00a0https:\/\/quillette.com\/2025\/06\/10\/classical-liberalism-without-strong-gods-open-society-popper\/: 1. I remembered reading \u201cCosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Appiah, 2006) years ago. A unifying moral liberal secular idea of how societies might function. \u00a0I remember recommending it to many friends. Quite bracing, I should re-read. 1. There are moral lessons to be drawn from established religion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}