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Originally Posted by Lazarus99
I kinda agree this is more or less true, but trying to live a life according to this philosophy sounds like a bad idea, for many reasons.
I'm not really even sure what it would mean to live a life according to this philosophy, so I'm not sure I understand you. I'm not sure there even is a moral philosophy here to refer to as "this moral philosophy", per se.
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Originally Posted by Lazarus99
Whatever you think of Jordan Peterson, I think he addresses this concept very well. If someone asks him whether he believes in God, he replies something along the lines of, "I live my life like I do."
I would grant that I think some secularists under-appreciate some prosocial benefits of religion (while being keenly aware of the also important negative aspects), or just how fundamentally human a certain religiosity may be, abstracted away from specific religious groups. I think it's true that social cohesion involves a need for shared beliefs, values, and so on. And religions have found a stable way to address that need (this recent
research letter letter in Nature is interesting, on that topic).
But I think people like Peterson might place too much value on existing traditions, and I'm not sure that makes sense either. Religiosity may not be about to disappear and we probably shouldn't want it to do so anyway, but I think we're justified in thinking that a lot of traditional religions have become too far removed from being plausible worldviews to make sense for a lot of people, try though they may. Peterson may find it honestly possible to live as though traditional Christianity were true, but I don't.