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The world makes systematic sense, and we can gain knowledge of it.
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This is the fundamental assumption of science, and every discipline within it. What point there is in calling it "Folk" escapes me. It seems almost some kind of parasitism by social science upon the natural sciences.
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“it is morally irresponsible to think and act as though we possess a universal, disembodied reason that generates absolute rules, decision-making procedures, and universal or categorical laws by which we can tell right from wrong in any situation we encounter.”
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Or so some would like to believe. But the religious would not, because thinking and acting in that very way is particularly good at inclining them to act for the good much more of the time than might otherwise be the case. The road to virtue is a surprisingly easy one to take the first steps upon.
What a lot of verbiage to describe the soul while sedulously avoiding the word. When this kind of verbal haze starts to blow in, you know some highly educated idiot is going to try making a case for being immoral -- and I don't mean being careless about what you rub your sexy bits up against.
I don't think this writer wants his readers walking the road of virtue, or understanding virtue clearly enough to perceive its path. I call that irresponsible.