Monotheism is not a claim about number—it is a claim about the ultimate moral unity of existence.
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I remember being pretty attracted to it, but that was half my intellectual life ago, so I take that with a grain of salt.
I guess I took him as arguing for a kind of moral unity or monism. And yet his approach doesn't seem very "godly."
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I think he treated the goal as a given (increased happiness, or something similar), and argued science could handle the rest.
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So that goal is actually the morality he's endorsing—which works for me. The question is whether it ignores relevant factors.
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