RE: Do you wish there's a god?
April 9, 2019 at 9:13 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2019 at 9:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It doesn't matter if he has or hasn't thought it through, or if it is or isn't a true statement of the nature of morality. An atheist can take any position on morality that doesn't include reference to gods.
Meanwhile, descriptive moral subjectivity is a true statement on the nature of human morality regardless of whether or not moral realism is a true statement on the nature of morality. Desciptive moral subjectivity is the acknowledgement that even if there is a meaningful objectivity to be had in moral proclamations, people can and do mistake their subjectivity for it, as you do, when you equivocate between what is beautiful and what is right, for example.
-aaaaand all of this, all of it is about people, what we can and can't apprehend, and which of our statements reflect one category or another. People are not gods. Whatever it is you mean by a god, I assume it isn't people.
Meanwhile, descriptive moral subjectivity is a true statement on the nature of human morality regardless of whether or not moral realism is a true statement on the nature of morality. Desciptive moral subjectivity is the acknowledgement that even if there is a meaningful objectivity to be had in moral proclamations, people can and do mistake their subjectivity for it, as you do, when you equivocate between what is beautiful and what is right, for example.
-aaaaand all of this, all of it is about people, what we can and can't apprehend, and which of our statements reflect one category or another. People are not gods. Whatever it is you mean by a god, I assume it isn't people.
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