[Serious] Absolutes and Atheism

[Mister Agenda]

Seriously, though, what's the question again?

If we are going to build a productive atheistic philosophy what are its starting points?

We don't expect theists to only have one religion in common, why would you expect atheists to only have one philosophy in common? There are plenty of philosophical works that don't rely on deities, they are all atheistic for purposes of this discussion. An atheist can adopt any of them, modify them as they see fit, mix and match them, or come up with their own. Just like theists can do with religon.

Personally I'm a rational skeptic epistemologically (or at least I try) a humanist morally, a moderate/progressive liberal politically, and I suppose a classicist when it comes to logic; but I'm probably limited by my education in that regard. I've not always been a humanist rational skeptic moderate/progressive liberal; I will modify them as needed based on evidence or reasoning new to me.

That said, I suppose a lot of Western atheists would fit a similar profile.