Why Secular Ethics is Baseless with Dr. Ovamir Anjum

Dr. Ovamir Anjum is the Editor-in-Chief at Yaqeen Institute and the founder of https://ummatics.org/

Being a “Good Person” is Not Enough: Why Ethics Need Islam

https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/being-a-good-person-is-not-enough-why-ethics-need-islam

Prophetic Ethics: A Model for those Seeking God and Eternal Life

https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/prophetic-ethics-a-model-for-those-seeking-god-and-eternal-life

Introduction: 00:00-03:36

The Ethical Impulse: 03:37-11:35

Reason too is necessary: 11:36-17:51

Humans disagree on what is good: 17:52-31:10

The “Secular Age” is not doing well: 31:11-36:25

What people think about ethics/religion: 36:26-37:30

Does science have an opinion? 37:31-54:08

The Modern World: 54:09-54:42

Nietzsche: 54:43-56:21

Some distinctions: 56:22-1:00:47

Is secularism just another religion? 1:00:48-1:09:23

Do we not have secular ethical systems? 1:09:24-1:23:52

How does secular ethics operate? 1:23:53-1:26:02

A Made Scientist on Mars: A Thought Experiment 1:26:03-1:31:38

Liberal ethics: rootless, smuggled, norms: 1:31:39-1:34:37

MacIntyre’s After Virtue applied to today: 1:34:38-1:43:53

Prophet Ethics: 1:43:54-1:50:40

Q&A: 1:50:41 - 2:07:49