RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
November 23, 2021 at 10:34 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2021 at 10:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Any reduction of moral whatsits to natural whatsits can be described that way.
To be fair, it’s contended to be a fallacy, but not recognized as one in the same way that a converse error might be. It’s not immediately obvious that or why moral whatsits can’t reduce to natural whatsits- but non naturalists would like to argue that they don’t.
A pantheistic morality is explicitly natural, though…and so, in that context, it’s moot. Non naturalism is a better fit for panentheism. The non natural being a part of the panentheist “plus” in the universe plus formulation of the sacred or divine.
From your comments about the moral algorithm referring to human emotion, you might be accurately classified as a non-cognitivist.
Additionally, don’t read too much into the term non natural, I can just about guarantee it doesn’t mean what it sounds like at first pass, I could have described your stated position as non natural non cognitivism, for example. That moral statements purport to report facts but do not, instead reporting our desires, which we intuitively apprehend.
To be fair, it’s contended to be a fallacy, but not recognized as one in the same way that a converse error might be. It’s not immediately obvious that or why moral whatsits can’t reduce to natural whatsits- but non naturalists would like to argue that they don’t.
A pantheistic morality is explicitly natural, though…and so, in that context, it’s moot. Non naturalism is a better fit for panentheism. The non natural being a part of the panentheist “plus” in the universe plus formulation of the sacred or divine.
From your comments about the moral algorithm referring to human emotion, you might be accurately classified as a non-cognitivist.
Additionally, don’t read too much into the term non natural, I can just about guarantee it doesn’t mean what it sounds like at first pass, I could have described your stated position as non natural non cognitivism, for example. That moral statements purport to report facts but do not, instead reporting our desires, which we intuitively apprehend.
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