An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar by Randal Rauser

Author:Randal Rauser [Rauser, Randal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633882430
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2016-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

MORAL OBLIGATION AND MORAL CALLING

Randal: I want to come back to moral obligation—the sense that we are obliged to do particular actions and obliged to refrain from doing other actions.

To give a sense of what I'm thinking, perhaps I can begin with the case of John Rabe, a German businessman working in Nanjing, China, in 1937. By September, it was becoming clear that the advancing Japanese army was about to take over the city. Given the notorious reputation of the Japanese for brutality, the obvious course of action beckoned: flee the war-torn country by retreating to the safety of the West. But against every impulse of his nature, Rabe resolved to stay. In his journal, as presented in the 2007 documentary Nanking, he offered the following reason why:

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