Acceptance
Too often we “accept” death in the same way that we accept the views of someone we disagree with only in order to stop the conversation.
Too often we “accept” death in the same way that we accept the views of someone we disagree with only in order to stop the conversation.
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Jesus is widely hailed as a great moral teacher. But does he qualify as a moral philosopher? In this video, I argue that although he appears to be very far from a philosopher, that says more about our misunderstandings of moral philosophy than it does about him.
A talk at a 2018 Compassion in Politics conference at All Souls College, Oxford, giving a global perspective on the theme.