http://butler-harris.org/archives/120 How can you have the last word if you haven't heard the first? Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:42:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://butler-harris.org/archives/120#comment-1329 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:44:23 +0000 http://butler-harris.org/archives/120#comment-1329 Corran-- well, it wasn't really that long ago; and it was still what we could call a Christian society. Therefore, the prevailing view of good and evil was basically the biblical view. Of course, the victorian intellectuals were in the process of wholesale rejection thereof. However, when Christianity is rejected, the ethic tends to stay materially the same for a good while; it's just that the justification shifts to some form of natural law. Corran– well, it wasn’t really that long ago; and it was still what we could call a Christian society. Therefore, the prevailing view of good and evil was basically the biblical view. Of course, the victorian intellectuals were in the process of wholesale rejection thereof. However, when Christianity is rejected, the ethic tends to stay materially the same for a good while; it’s just that the justification shifts to some form of natural law.

]]> http://butler-harris.org/archives/120#comment-1202 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:11:14 +0000 http://butler-harris.org/archives/120#comment-1202 This is really helpful. Do you kinow anything about the beliefs of good and evil during the time period that this book was set? Any information you do have would be very helpfull and very appreciated. Thank you. This is really helpful. Do you kinow anything about the beliefs of good and evil during the time period that this book was set? Any information you do have would be very helpfull and very appreciated. Thank you.

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