Mark Hopwood

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Elucidations · Episode 20: Simon Critchley discusses faith · 8 Feb 2011 podcast

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

They might want to say, well no that's the bad kind of moral life. voice-verified

That's the kind of moral life, the kind of religion that we've been gradually struggling to get ourselves out of since the Enlightenment. voice-verified

How would you respond to a a criticism like that? voice-verified

So you've described yourself as as a supporter of or an advocate of commitment in in moral life. voice-verified

Someone might say, Well, all right, but you're not an advocate of just any commitment in moral life. voice-verified

There has to be some kind of means for choosing the commitments one takes up and then it seems like there has to be some kind of sense in which some commitments can be better than others. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

Well voice-verified

That was actually the reference that I was gonna make. voice-verified

So this this does sound like the moment in Kant where he says something of the form to put it in your words, any kind of commitment that you're gonna take up must be a commitment, not just for you, but for any he would say rational human being. voice-verified

So I'd like to go back to one thing you mentioned earlier, which was a kind of political application of this point. voice-verified

So you mentioned this problem of motivation in liberal democracies. voice-verified

Now, one might wonder where you wanted to go with that. voice-verified

So the the point seems to be that a liberal democracy prides itself on not requiring this deep kind of faith based commitment. voice-verified

It's it considers that. voice-verified

Separation voice-verified

of the public and private. voice-verified

It considers itself neutral based on reasons that everyone could accept. voice-verified

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