tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920271329589936347.post2786772104098324754..comments2023-04-25T11:15:08.515-04:00Comments on Science & Religion Today: New MIT Center for Human & Global EthicsHeather Waxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15610116462331794810noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920271329589936347.post-13863044066366721802009-05-01T14:04:00.000-04:002009-05-01T14:04:00.000-04:00I wish the new Institute every success in its comm...I wish the new Institute every success in its commendable mission.<br />However, as to "We need promotion of secular ethics through education"<br />I fear secular or any ethics is generally and can be promoted, not through education, teaching, and preaching, but through examples set by parents, elders,and other one respects,and through the qualities of kindness, caring, and compassion that one absorbs by seeing the associated attitudes and behavior all around, rather than through books, lectures, and sermons.<br />Ultimately, there is only enlightened ethics, which can be both secular and religious or neither.<br /><br />V. V. Raman<br />May 1, 2009Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com