bennyboy Wrote:Good and bad imply goals, and the fulfillment of goals.
That's right.
bennyboy Wrote:However, some goals are universal enough to consider objective. For example, all normally-functioning humans (at least those in good health) wish to survive. In serving our nature by surviving, we are serving out a goal that is not the arbitrary creation of the conscious self. In creating social contracts and feeling guilty when we violate them, we are acting according to our nature as a highly social species.
That's objective enough for me.
If morality is about good and bad, and good and bad is about our goal, and if our true goal is God, then if there is no God, there can be no objective morality for man. Every act of following nature viewed as good will be just a simple opinion of a man and it will just be pointless. Why follow nature after all? But, it is true that God is the true goal of man, by being able to know the truth and love the good, and that God is Truth and Goodness Himself, because He is Being Himself, Whom we know to exist as Being Itself in order to explain why is there something instead of nothing, and that Being, True and Good are just one and the same; it is just looked in different aspect: Being as Itself, Truth as known in the mind, and Good as loved in the will. So, if there is no God, then there can't be objective morality.
