RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
March 1, 2013 at 4:18 pm
(March 1, 2013 at 3:00 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Ethical atheism requires faith. The language of physics, chemistry and biology cannot describe the moral worth of people. It cannot create a political philosophy, or tell people how to live the good life. Of course morality is related to biology, physics and chemistry, but none of these things ground atheist ethics in any kind of remotely rigorous way.
The reality, in the end, that the ethical, responsible atheist is just an atheist than happens to have more faith than the nihilist....