Wes has posted about this previously, but I wanted to give this more thought after seeing Sam Harris (introduced at the top of the show not as a philosopher but as a "professional atheist") on the Daily Show a couple of days back. You can see the interview here. As is typical for a short interview like this, not enough gets conveyed about Harris's point for the viewer to Continue Reading …
Freud vs. C.S. Lewis: A Roundtable on Religion and Morality
Here we see guys in goofy Lewis and Freud costumes putting forward simplistic alternative views on the origin of moral sentiments to set up a round-table discussion: http://youtu.be/ymjuxVPBZYc The discussion interestingly displays no evidence of these folks having read Freud's discussion of morality in Civilization and its Discontents, specifically his claim that Continue Reading …