(July 6, 2012 at 12:53 pm)CliveStaples Wrote:(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?
I didn't know what the adjective of "integrity" was, so I looked it up an google.translate spitted "full of integrity" out. "A worldview full of integrity" was my solution.
I don't mean that atheists are obligated to only accept this.
All I want to say, is that you would somehow contadict yourself, if you were an atheist, but still follow an idealistic philosophy.
Could it be, that in the english language you use "integrity" only in a moral context? I slowly get that feeling.
