RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 27, 2019 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2019 at 1:30 pm by Acrobat.)
(August 27, 2019 at 1:17 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(August 27, 2019 at 11:58 am)Acrobat Wrote: I'm merely making a case for the nature of morality, that better explains all the unusual particularities of it, than the barely coherent non-sense often sold here.
That's even easier.
We are a social species, and as social species, attributes like: Cooperation, altruism, reciprocity, kin selection, etc, are evolved traits, as a survival mechanism. We evolved in groups of 50-150 where, being ejected from the group, meant almost certain death.
This perception you mention, is the result of the above evolved behaviors.
All one has to do is look at our closest relatives, Bonobo chimps. They will: protect weaker members of their group even if it endangers their own life, will share food even if it is in short supply, will adopt orphaned babies, will punish violent members of the groups and eject them, will show sadness when a group member dies, and many other behaviors that can only be described as morality.
Do Bonobo chimps also have this 'teleological sense' you speak of?
Do bonobo chimps also view morality as objective? Maybe more like matters of taste, aversions and attractions, etc...?
By appealing to evolution, the referent is biological states. Something we can say of a cats aversion, flight response when seeing a cucumber. But morality, when we perceive things as good and bad, we're not describing our biological states, in fact we see good and bad, morality as objective, as something true not about our biology, but objectively true, independent of our biological states.
Good and Bad are not descriptions of some sort of physiological reactions within my biology body, but rather objective truths about reality itself.
When I speak of the particularities here, I speaking of the particularly around the objectiveness of morality, not particularities of subjective biologist states.
The best you can do with biology when its come to morality, as a counter argument here, is an argument for emotivism, but that would also fail to take into account that this is not how any us actually perceive morality.