Gordon Clark's book, Essays on Ethics and Politics, is full of rich thoughts on a variety of topics. Here are some of his thoughts on education. Enjoy!
Moral Education
Can moral education be grounded on naturalism? Humanism, naturalism and atheism have no moral grounds for any morality whatsoever. Can an empirical philosophy, a philosophy that repudiates revelation, an instrumentalist or descriptive philosophy provide a ground for any moral prescriptions whatsoever? They cannot. Instead, they place moral issues on the ground of personal preference. All attempts are failures to infuse morality in a naturalistic system because there is no empirical knowledge sufficient to brand murder as wrong and private property as right. Any system of thought that denies a divine sanction of moral (for or against actions) fails to condemn murder, theft, adultery, but also fails to establish any universal laws or common distinction between right and wrong.
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There is an excellent piece on atheism which cites some persuasive material on why atheism does and not and cannot be a basis for good moral behavior. The article is located at this location.
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