RE: Morality from the ground up
August 2, 2017 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2017 at 11:09 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(August 1, 2017 at 11:38 pm)Astonished Wrote:(August 1, 2017 at 5:08 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: 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.
I've provided a two reasonable starting points - natural law and stoicism. Neither is necessarily theistic.