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IDEAS MATTER Lecture Series

Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore
Philosophy Department
February 15, 2007

"The Secular Sacred: Where Marcus and I Walk Different Paths Through the Same Forest"

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"I don't believe in God. I don't practice a religion. But I believe that the natural world -- the actual Earth, the stuff of our lives, the world we prod and pollute and irradiate and pave -- is sacred. This claim has profound moral consequences. It closes the distance between what is and what ought to be. If this is the way the world is -- extraordinary, surprising, beautiful, mysterious, meaningful, sacred -- then this is how I ought to act in the world -- with gratitude, with joy and celebration, with respect and care." -- Kathleen Dean Moore

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