ABSTRACT
In our globalising and increasingly crowded and conflictual world, more people than ever are coming into contact with others who do not always share the same world views, religions and codes of conduct. This is raising profound questions, particularly in today’s increasingly secularised Western Europe but also elsewhere, about whether we can find a common basis for moral behaviour since the traditional religious moral guidelines have ceased to be credible for many people because they are legitimised by referring to authorities beyond ordinary human reach while referring to a history with supernatural aspects that may never have happened.
