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What do you have to be?
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RE: What do you have to be?
I guess you're right.
I made a mistake in my question.

I define Atheism not only as a lack of belief, but as a denial of the possibility that god exists. After all, if you don't believe in god, you could still be an agnostic.

I use Idealism in the most simple form. Ideas are real. Reality, as we know it, is just an image of an idea.
I don't think it matters if you use god as the highest idea or the image of the sun or mathematics or whatever.

So, if you're willing to postulate the sentence "There is no god", it seems to me, that you necessarily would have to claim "There is no noumenon" (I guess you use "noumenon" the way Kant used it).
I don't think you could come up with a consistent argument against god from an idealistic position (again: I mean a denial of god's existence (any god) not only a lack of believe. We don't have to call it atheism if you like).

I actually should have asked the question: "if you're materialist, how do you cope with Hume's is-ought problem and naturalistic fallacies?", because that was actually what I was up to.
I admit it, I failed.

Quote:The popular Hollywood movie The Matrix represents an Idealism...

A great movie about idealism - materialism is "Solaris" by Andrej Tarkovsky (don't watch Soderberghs remake).
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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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