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The Demoralisation of Discourse

In his second Reith lecture Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explores how objective standards influence our ethics.

Dr Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, explores religious ethics in his second Reith Lecture in the series 'The Persistence of Faith'. He investigates whether today's moral dramas centre more on the free-self than the saint or the hero.

In this lecture entitled 'The Demoralisation of Discourse', Dr Jonathan Sacks focuses on how modern morals are founded in faith. It is his belief that without the objective standards of religion we would have no coherent language of ethics.

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30 minutes

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  • Wed 21 Nov 1990 09:00

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