I recommend this animated video of a talk by Matthew Taylor at the RSA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7ANGMy0yo&feature=channel
You can watch this directly from the RSA here:
http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/2010/08/23/rsa-animate-21st-century-enlightenment/
You can watch the whole lecture (1 hour 15 minutes) here:
http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/matthew-taylor-21st-century-enlightenment
There are other interesting RSA videos here:
http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/
This video proposes the
This video proposes the solution to be the ethical dimension of humanism and ethical reason. This leads up to The Philosophy Of Freedom that points to ethical intuition. Without free ethical "intuition" the ethical reason won't resolve anything. Many who do serious ethical reasoning will experience moments of ethical intuition but it is very helpful to be conscious of the process and having knowledge of it will also set a standard for those who lack the capacity.
The answer is "pure" reasoning, but this is also the question. What is pure reasoning?
The Philosophy Of Freedom holds the missing element needed for nice sounding philosophys like this to actually work. This is why it is so important to present POF to the world. If we had $50,000 we could have a cartoon video like this one produced by the company who does these.
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