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Annual review of psychology, 2001

Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope definitively to resolve ethical and political contr... more Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope definitively to resolve ethical and political controversies through appeal to right reason, and thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent. As an intellectual aspiration the expectation is for a moral rationality that is universal, secular, open to all, and able adequately to frame and guide the moral life. The roots for such optimism lie at the beginning of the second millennium, grounded in part in the Stoic, natural law, themes that characterized post-traditional periods in Hellenic culture and the late Roman Republic.

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2001

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001

Annual review of psychology, 2001

Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope definitively to resolve ethical and political contr... more Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope definitively to resolve ethical and political controversies through appeal to right reason, and thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent. As an intellectual aspiration the expectation is for a moral rationality that is universal, secular, open to all, and able adequately to frame and guide the moral life. The roots for such optimism lie at the beginning of the second millennium, grounded in part in the Stoic, natural law, themes that characterized post-traditional periods in Hellenic culture and the late Roman Republic.

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2001

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001

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