RE: Atheism and Ethics
July 27, 2024 at 7:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2024 at 8:04 am by Disagreeable.)
(July 25, 2024 at 3:25 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Harm seems to reduce to instrumental utility, in which case, why isn't instrumental utility a measure of moral right and wrong. If it's not, it's hard to see what harm offers that utility doesn't.
Why do you think that harm is instrumental rather than intrinsic? I'm not saying that harm is harmful for some other reason. It's harmful in itself.
(July 27, 2024 at 7:44 am)Angrboda Wrote: Everything is mind-dependent because everything is an idea in the mind of God. Prove me wrong!
I have sometimes pondered this because cosmopsychism is sometimes intuitively attractive to me. But ultimately I see no reason why there is one big mind above the very many smaller minds. So I don't believe in God. We know there are many smaller minds. We don't know that there is one big one.
And even if I did believe in God, I'd still think that religion was very harmful. Nothing is going to make me follow a religion.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure