Are the values we hold 'Christian values'?

[Mr Khan]

happydolphin said:

Jumpin said:

An authority is needed, because otherwise there is no objectivity to morals.

How about happiness? My objective is to be a happy or a healthy individual. My morals revolve around that absolute goal.

Right. In the Aristotlean sense of the word, "Happiness" is the goal of all humanity. No-one does not desire to be what i'm going to call "A-Happy" for short, because Aristotle's happiness was not limited to the emotion of joy or enjoyment, but related to the deeper notions of contentment, fulfillment, and a sense of connection with the world, as well as having all of their physical needs and desires met within reason (because overindulgence is not happiness."

Settling A-Happy as the state in which all people desire to live, one must then ask how one can best act in order to both optimize the A-Happy of themselves and others. This then is the route of utilitarianism

So i amend my previous post. It is utilitarianism founded upon the basis of Aristotlean ethics that provides the rational basis for humane morality.