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What do you have to be?
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What do you have to be?
Ladies and bruces,

I have a question about atheism.
As we know, being an atheist doesn't imply anything. It just means that someone doesn't believe in god (any god).

But is this true? Can you be an atheist and anything you like (except a believer in god, of course).
It seems to me, that you have to be a materialist and therefore can't be an idealist. (maybe in constructivist epistemology, but I'd doubt that)
(True/Untrue?)

If this is true, how do you deal with Hume's "is-ought problem" and naturalistic fallacies?

(David Hume
could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel)
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What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 6, 2012 at 9:55 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by CliveStaples - July 6, 2012 at 10:18 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by Ace Otana - July 6, 2012 at 10:24 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 6, 2012 at 10:30 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by CliveStaples - July 6, 2012 at 10:49 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 6, 2012 at 11:32 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by CliveStaples - July 6, 2012 at 11:34 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 6, 2012 at 12:19 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by CliveStaples - July 6, 2012 at 12:28 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 6, 2012 at 12:36 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by CliveStaples - July 6, 2012 at 12:38 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 6, 2012 at 12:50 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by CliveStaples - July 6, 2012 at 12:53 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 6, 2012 at 1:05 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by The Grand Nudger - July 6, 2012 at 11:20 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by Mister Agenda - July 6, 2012 at 11:34 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by CliveStaples - July 6, 2012 at 1:16 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by downbeatplumb - July 6, 2012 at 1:31 pm
RE: What do you have to be? - by Angrboda - July 7, 2012 at 6:52 am
RE: What do you have to be? - by Metonymie - July 7, 2012 at 11:49 am



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