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Nov 17, 2018 · Engelhardt admits that even in the past many people did not believe in God, or lived as if no God existed, or did not comply with the moral norms grounded in the transcendent, but the general culture provided the adequate direction.
- Mori, Maurizio
Nov 17, 2018 · Despite its many strengths, Engelhardt’s After God displays two surprising features: an affinity for voluntaristic ethics and a tendency to oppose Eastern Orthodoxy (as a purely revealed religion) to philosophy.
- David Bradshaw
- 2018
Nov 17, 2018 · In After God: Morality & Bioethics in a Secular Age, Professor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. argues that the now dominant intellectual culture of the West actively shuns any transcendent point of orientation, such as an appeal to God or to a God’s eye perspective on reality.
- Mark J Cherry
- 2018
Nov 17, 2018 · Although the book is an intelligent critique of contemporary moral philosophy in favor of a kind of traditionalism rooted in the perspective of the Orthodox Church, containing numerous forceful arguments, I ultimately disagree with Engelhardt on several main points stemming from his pessimistic view of our current culture and society.
- Maurizio Mori
- 2018
In his final book After God: Morality and Ethics in a Secular Age he. addressed the moral implications of a society after the rejection of God, and how this may impact bioethics and...
As Engelhardt argues, “Even in his youth, Hegel understood that religion transformed by the Enlightenment no longer needed a transcendent God. The Enlightenment created a culture predicated on the irrelevance of a living, personal God” (2000, 96).
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In After God, the late Engelhardt starts taking for granted that “Bioethics provides some of the most important battles in the culture wars” (p. 12), so that the old moral strangers transformed themselves in “moral enemies”.
