An Uncommon Conversation

by Donald W. Gieschen

SET UP: Donald W. Gieschen is the author of this piece and, with the exception of the small talk, all of what Don says in the substantive conversations in An Uncommon Conversation is autobiographically true of the author in the sense that what Don says both accurately relates events in the author's life and honestly expresses the authors thoughts on the subjects being talked about. The lunches are fictional. Paul is a fictional character created to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441562206
• ISBN13: 9781441562203
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A timely discussion of objective moral values in a secular world.

The uncommon conversation in this book is between the author (Don) and a fictional friend (Paul), and focuses on whether the 'godless', philosophically natural universe, envisioned by the atheist or philosophical naturalist is a universe in which humans can have verifiable objective (non-subjective, non-relative) practical knowledge of moral truths. At a couple of places in the book the conversation brings in the author's personal life as he worked himself free of a religious or metaphically dualistic worldview, and found a philosopically and personally satisfactory view of objective moral values in the tradition of David Hume and Adam Smith that does not consider such values to be mere opinions or customs that are true for some persons but not for others. At the end of the conversation the reader is in a position to determine whether Don has made a rationally and evidentially strong case for his views.