(September 23, 2015 at 12:10 am)WishfulThinking Wrote: It never really occurred to me that there could be a hell without a religion. I'm apologize if I'm being obtuse, but how do you investigate it without the two tying together? It seems that the last question could have an entirely different answer depending on whether or not hell and a religion were intertwined. Forgive me for not understanding, but what do you mean by morality being properly basic?
For example showing compassion (in general) is good, is properly basic fact of morality. You cannot prove it to be a feature, you simply have to accept it through vision or faith. Goodness in itself, that is being good to be good, itself, is a properly basic belief/faith/sight, it's not something that people believe due it be proven from outside itself.
