RE: Does Atheism Lead to Nihilism?
March 10, 2015 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 3:22 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 10, 2015 at 1:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: No problem. It’s just that you, Esquilax, with a tacit acceptance of a naturalism, cannot rationally defend meaning using a metaphysic that dismisses personal identity, intentionality, and universal essences.
(March 10, 2015 at 2:14 pm)SteveII Wrote: So what "inspires us to live beyond selfish interests and so achieve social coherence...and compels us beyond self-interest, beyond ego, beyond family, nation, and race." Why don't we live only for self-interest like evolution taught us to do?
The unquestioned premise here is that love is outside of evolution.
The rebuttal is to be found throughout the class mammalia.