RE: Atheism and morality
July 2, 2013 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2013 at 3:56 pm by simplexity.)
(July 2, 2013 at 3:18 pm)Inigo Wrote: I assume you don't think a god exists. Well, there are theories about gods. But it would be grossly misleading and not a little stupid to say that 'gods exist in the same way a theory exists'.
Never said gods exist in the same way a theory exists. That was you who made that false equivalency. Now if you are saying god exists as a concept. Fine. A little pointless though. Morality is a concept by definition. Concepts do exist in the minds of the person who came up with them. Existence is a strange thing indeed.
Morals are just certain subjective tendencies/beliefs/concepts based on observations/sensations. Morality is the culmination of all these morals. So in that way you can equate it with theory as a way of making sense of the observations(except morals are subjectively based, originally).