Maybe Right, Maybe Wrong: A Guide for Young Thinkers
by Dan Barker
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Author: Dan BarkerIllustrator: Brian Strassburg
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-07
ISBN: 0879757310
Number of pages: 76
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Book Review: Honest Morality
Summary: 5 Stars
Maybe right and maybe wrong is a great book for honestly explaining morality (both to adults and kids) without any appeals to arguments from authority. It gives valid reasons for why one should behave in certain ways, without appealing to any Bibles/Korans/Talmuds. And in a much more universal language, it advocates morality, listening to one's conscience, and living with principles. It leaves open the possibility that one principle might be more important than another principle, whereas religiously based morality makes inflexible (though sometimes contradictary) moral assertions, without any general principles and explanations about why something is moral (other than appealing to the authority of the bible, et. al). The religious way can and never could be reconciled with the paradoxes of real human society. For example, if killing is always against God's commandments, then why do Muslims exhort killing in Jihad's, or why do Christians and Jews believe in the eye for an eye (without any explicit permission). For real morality, you have to be consistent. Principle based morality relys on us humans to figure out what is truly moral.
What a fresh and honest outlook on life this book gives. I wish my parents had read this book to me when I was little.
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Discusses learning right from wrong, stressing such aspects as the difference between rules and principles and the importance of an individual's rights.Education Books
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