Alexander, Morality, Religion

Alexander asserts that Deity is 'beyond good and evil', and that Religion is independent of Morality. Nevertheless, he also suggests that Deity is "on the side of" goodness. However, a conjunction of several other components of his system seems to imply that both of these judgments are inaccurate. For, he maintains that Moral good consists in social harmony, that a concomitant of an Emergent is the unity of its underlying processes, and that Deity is an Emergent of the extant universe. It therefore follows that Deity will unify the universe, and, hence, that it will harmonize human society. In other words, Deity entails the actualization of goodness, and, so, Religion and Morality are, despite his assertions to the contrary, interrelated in his system.