(January 23, 2017 at 4:26 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:Good doesn't have to exist objectively to exist at all. It is certainly a changing concept. What we label as good today might not be considered good 10 years from now. This is certainly true of biblical good as well.(January 23, 2017 at 3:39 pm)Cephus Wrote: You have to remember that the core of all morality is enlightened self-interest.
Which ultimately reduces to Might-Makes-Right. Not exactly what we would called liberal Western values.
Just to clarify...atheists can act unselfishly, but they cannot justify calling that a good thing.
If we get to define what good means, then we can define unselfish actions as good.
It's a lot more work to think it out for yourself and hold logical reasons for these things, but just because life is inherently meaningless doesn't mean we are incapable of assigning meaning to it. Just because good and evil are concepts made by humans, concepts that are fluid and change over time, doesn't make them less real to us right now.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
