(July 6, 2012 at 12:50 pm)Metonymie Wrote: Oh...
you're right. I shouldn't have used the term "god".
But I guess you can say, that any idealism is "divine" in a way.
That's at least how I see it.
If you take Plato and leave the parts out in which he actually mentions god, you could say it is atheistic.
But his theories about the higher spheres (or levels or however it's called in english) have something supernatural anyway.
And I claim, as an atheist you can't accept Plato (even without god), because it wouldn't fit into a worldview full of integrity.
P.S.
I propably made several mistakes by now. Sorry, my english is anything but perfect.
Your English is perfectly readable!
I'm not sure what you mean by "a worldview full of integrity". What does "integrity" mean, in this sense? And why are atheists obligated to only accept worldviews that exhibit it?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
