Atheism and Ethics

[Lucian]

Unlike some of my compadres on this forum (peace be upon them!), I don’t view morality as either objective or immutable. What is moral today is not what is moral a thousand years from now, or at a thousand years ago. Moral standards and strictures are determined by the attitudes prevalent at a particular time and place. Morality isn’t a ‘real property of the universe, any more than trends in fashion or taste in food.

Therefore, morality seems to slot very neatly into a godless universe.

Boru

Thanks Boru. I am interested in views of morality from a cognitivist realist perspective, you could be indicating something like this through a relativistic philosophy but I am not sure you are? Do you think that moral standards have some sort of force to direct motivation and actions that lies external to us but in societal norms somehow? Or are you saying that morality is just a projection of the common attitudes towards behaviours?