Modern Ideas

Modern Ideas

• Secular humanism – values of democracy and equality, a work ethic, a morality that opposes suffering, and beliefs in science and positivism (they belief that philosophy should limit itself to what is 'given' in experience)

• These values originate in religion, though most proponents of modern ideas are atheists

• Democracy founded on value of equality – these are instincts of the herd, which values mediocrity.

• Therefore, democrats, anarchists and socialists all ultimately adhere to Christian values. All want a…