RE: Does Atheism Lead to Nihilism?
March 10, 2015 at 7:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 7:58 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(March 10, 2015 at 5:03 pm)SteveII Wrote: So it seems that at least for some of you ethics shift from person to person from group to group and from generation to generation.
A better way to phrase this is that morality shifts from person to person, and advances from one age to another, and from one stage of an individual's life to another.
And that includes you. As you grow older, your understanding of morality will grow ... hopefully.
(March 10, 2015 at 5:55 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(March 10, 2015 at 5:03 pm)SteveII Wrote: Others (Esquilax) seem to believe reality to be a sufficient objective framework upon which to hang morality. This I don't understand.
Do you think that you and I and the rest of the human population have to contend with the same physical laws of the universe, with very similar bodies and minds?
Do you think that: life is preferable to death, health is preferable to disease, freedom is preferable to slavery, not having your stuff stolen is preferable to having it stolen?
Do you think that, based on the above, that what I require for my well being is very similar to what you require? And it would also what the majority of humanity requires for their well being?
Do you think that living in a society, and on a planet, that also values these things is preferable to one that doesn't?
What don't you understand?
Taking philosophers to task for their abstractions is akin to taking a whore to task for her business: they both do what they can to get through the day.
(March 10, 2015 at 6:13 pm)wiploc Wrote: While we wait for your point, I'll make one myself. Craig said that he doesn't know of any reason not to rape, aside from the fact that an invisible eccentric tells him not to. It seems to me that the commands of an invisible eccentric are no reason to do anything. So how should I distinguish Craig's morality from nihilism?
Fuckin' brilliant.
eta: for some reason the rate/rep button isn't working, but yeah, this point rates that much in my mind. Will rep will I can.