First we heard Sam Harris propose that science could answer moral questions. He didn't convince us. Then we heard from Bonobo-watcher, Franz de Waal who showed us that, while science can't provide answers to moral questions, it can show us some of the evolutionary origins of our sense of morality, and how much we have in common with the animal kingdom. From biological observations, it's easy to see how we have a thirst for justice.
Leaping across the universe of disciplines, we find Matthew Fox, a former Roman Catholic priest (and now an Episcopalian priest) who was so disturbed by the injustices of his religion that he repeated Martin Luther's act of nailing 95 new theses to the door of the church in Wittenburg, Germany, where Luther's theses helped give rise to the Protestant Reformation. Fox begins a new reformation. Many of his 95 theses define a moral system that seems to be consistent with science, and with the resonant facets of biological justice.
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