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Why Secular Ethics Always Fail, and What’s the Thoughtful Alternative? (Hint: It’s Thomas Aquinas)

By The Stream Published on January 29, 2025

Watch this in-depth, 15-minute historical overview of the attempts by Enlightenment philosophers who’d rejected Christian revelation and a Divine purpose in-built in nature to construct a consistent, plausible alternative basis for morality. Guess what? They failed, and laid the groundwork for bloody revolutions, unending wars, genocide, and totalitarianism. This video concludes with the alternative they all rejected: Christian, biblical ethics elaborated through the best of Greek philosophy, in the style of Thomas Aquinas.