Re: I have never met a "Humanist"
I have. They are the pagans who think morality is entirely derivative from nature.
I recall an evening when my daughter was three and we were driving home. A bright, fat, full moon hung on the horizon. Kiddingly, I pretended to race to it. In fatuousness, that reminds me how atheistic humanists seek to derive morality from nature, i.e., ought from is, or qualitative from quantitative --- free and clear of any regard or respect for a market of interaction with any reconciling, higher consciousness.
Indeed, Progressivism --- either humanist or Marxist --- is nothing without a labor theory of value. Not a theory of dollars of gas needed to produce x horsepower, mind you, but a childish pretense that a quantitative store of labor can be measurably converted to a qualitative store of merit or value.
A child knows better, yet millions if not billions of "bright" people have rushed after the false light of Progressive fools' gold. One must spend a lot of time and effort to become so "smart" as to know so many things that just are not so.
I have. They are the pagans who think morality is entirely derivative from nature.
I recall an evening when my daughter was three and we were driving home. A bright, fat, full moon hung on the horizon. Kiddingly, I pretended to race to it. In fatuousness, that reminds me how atheistic humanists seek to derive morality from nature, i.e., ought from is, or qualitative from quantitative --- free and clear of any regard or respect for a market of interaction with any reconciling, higher consciousness.
Indeed, Progressivism --- either humanist or Marxist --- is nothing without a labor theory of value. Not a theory of dollars of gas needed to produce x horsepower, mind you, but a childish pretense that a quantitative store of labor can be measurably converted to a qualitative store of merit or value.
A child knows better, yet millions if not billions of "bright" people have rushed after the false light of Progressive fools' gold. One must spend a lot of time and effort to become so "smart" as to know so many things that just are not so.
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Re: "a childish pretense that a quantitative store of labor can be measurably converted to a qualitative store of merit or value"
Sam Harris feigns there is a way to correlate quantitative neurological tests with qualitative experiences of well being, and that "well being" offers a concept by which to derive ought from is, or morality from nature. However, I do not see that his protocol quite handles the conversion of that which is best for the well being of an individual to that which is best for the preservation of a decent society at large. Perhaps he has some kind of "well being magnetometer" that he can attach to the atmosphere of a society, to capture the "well being" (or gross national happiness?) of the general field of a society at large?
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