Atheism and morality

[Inigo]

[quote='BrotherNeto' pid='471474' dateline='1372790507']You keep saying morality has an instructing nature. Why? Please prove this. You keep using your premise that is has an instructing nature(which in itself has not proof) to argue against others. If you want to continue using the word 'instructive', morality has an instructive nature the same way pain does. You have a choice to ignore the pain of touching a burning hot frying pan, but because of the chemical reactions/nerve patterns you will probably rather not continue to touch the pan. Key phrase here is you have a choice. You can burn yourself if you wish. Same way with morals which work in basically the same way. We all have what are mirror neurons(or most of us), which when harm is done to another the same pain we see, or hear is literally transmitted back to our brain by our own neurons. This is only one example. [quote]

I KNOW that one of my premises is that morality has an instructing nature. I wrote that premise myself. Why feel the need to point out to me something I patently obviously aware of? I am extracting the implications of that premise.

Do you deny it, then? If you do there is no point in us continuing this discussion. For it is a conceptual truth about morality that it instructs and favours. Morality is essentially 'normative' meaning precisely that it directs.

So, if you deny this feature then as far as I am concerned you are just not talking about what I am talking about - and so there's no point in us continuing. I'm talking about the same thing Kant, Hume, and all contemporary metaethicists are talking about, namely something that is essentially normative. If you're not, then you're simply talking past me and not addressing me.