{"id":166,"date":"2019-08-01T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=166"},"modified":"2019-08-01T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T22:50:21","slug":"can-there-be-good-without-god-by-onkar-ghate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/can-there-be-good-without-god-by-onkar-ghate\/","title":{"rendered":"Can There Be Good Without God? by Onkar Ghate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Whether it\u2019s the legality of abortion, the desirability of free speech, the power of social media companies, or the appropriateness of a president\u2019s tweets,\u00a0we seem to be increasingly divided by issues of value, by what we consider right and wrong,good\u00a0and evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But whichever side we take on these and other controversies, if we\u2019re asked to explain where our very ideas of&nbsp;good&nbsp;and evil and of right and wrong come from, and what exactly they mean, we\u2019re often at a loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the face of such puzzlement, one of the most common responses is to say that&nbsp;God&nbsp;is the source of morality and that if \u201cGod&nbsp;is dead, everything is permitted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\u00a0this webinar, we\u2019ll challenge the idea that morality rests on an authority figure.\u00a0We\u2019ll discuss how authoritarianism plagues both our religious and secular thinking about ethics. And we\u2019ll sketch an alternative approach to\u00a0good\u00a0and evil, one that treats morality as a this-worldly, ordinary, understandable form of knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded live as part of ARI&#8217;s Philosophy of Living on Earth webinar series on July 27, 2019<br> Sign up up to attend the next webinar live at http:\/\/courses.aynrand.org\/webinars\/register <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it\u2019s the legality of abortion, the desirability of free speech, the power of social media companies, or the appropriateness of a president\u2019s tweets,\u00a0we seem to be increasingly divided by issues of value, by what we consider right and wrong,good\u00a0and evil. But whichever side we take on these and other controversies, if we\u2019re asked to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[406,13,485,239,54,37,12,113,41,28,337,486],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-atheism","tag-ethics","tag-god","tag-good","tag-metaphysics","tag-morality","tag-philosophy","tag-reason","tag-religion","tag-right","tag-secular","tag-wrong","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}