(August 1, 2017 at 5:08 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(July 31, 2017 at 10:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Is it possible to make a moral system without reference to instinct or to superstition, but rooted in rational principles? How might we go about doing that?
Maybe, but no one has yet fully succeeded in doing so. I'd say Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics comes the closest. Even then, he relies on a primal universal desire for happiness. Maybe Seneca or Marcus Arelius.
Maybe if theistic fucks like you stop getting in the way it wouldn't be so difficult.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
