{"id":25144,"date":"2010-01-20T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/20\/ethics-and-morality-sans-relig\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T17:14:50","slug":"ethics-and-morality-sans-relig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/20\/ethics-and-morality-sans-relig\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics and morality sans religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably don’t know that I went to Harvard, because I rarely mention it, but I did, and when I was there I literally worked and studied around the Divinity school. The lab I worked in was on one side of the Div School, and the Peabody Museum (home of the Anthro Dept) was on the other side of the Div School, which was, in turn, half surrounded, like a morsel of food about to be eaten by a voracious amoeba, by the Biology Building.<\/p>\n

And, I was amused to learn that the Harvard Div School was a hotbed of atheism. Or so I was told. But I did not pay much attention.<\/p>\n


\nWell, I’m reminded of all that by this:<\/p>\n

The humanist chaplain [Greg Epstein] at Harvard preaches on living an ethical life without belief in God as the underpinning. His new book explores why people manage to do good without belief in a deity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the interview:<\/p>\n