English Art/Literary Religion Morality

The Center for Inquiry aims to put an end to religion's influence on public policy. Where do you look for an alternative moral framework?
We look to a long tradition of secular and humanist ethics that stretches all the way back to the ancient Greeks, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates and developed over the years by a number of philosophers, writers and scientists. We look to more modern people like Paul Kurtz, who recently passed away and was a secular humanist philosopher and the founder of the Center for Inquiry. I really think it's two places secularists most commonly look for the roots of morality. One of them is certainly scientific: There's plenty of evidence, once you accept the theory of evolution, that morality is developed over a long period of time so we can live together without wanting to kill each other all the time. And we're all born with a basic moral sense, and it's our duty to refine that. We admit that it's very hard and very complex. It's not easy. You have to look at thousands of years of writing ***to try to reason through*** and use our consciences and decide what's right and wrong to find out how we should treat other people and animals.

This is part of an interview published in Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/credo-michael-de-dora