From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 22:40:42 BST
David,
David said:
What is the bad break in moral philosophy?
Matt:
I wasn't thinking of anything specifically, more generally, but a specific bad break in moral philosophy would be something like Augustine's subtle argument in which he makes a break between theology, belief in god, faith, and all that and morality, the way people act. Augustine said that all you need to get into heaven is faith in God, that it doesn't matter how you behave. He did this to protect the autonomy of religion from moral pagans, he tried insulating religion from moral Ockhamites. Augustine saw a slippery slope into atheism that has kinda' been played out with the Protestants. The more you emphasize good deeds, the less you need God. (So goes the arugment.) Well, some theologians, namely Luther, thought that break between theology and morality was bullcrap.
Matt
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