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Mutuality: A secular ethics project
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RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project
(June 21, 2012 at 1:38 am)padraic Wrote:
Quote:Why can't we create our own "bible" - an ethical code written by collaborating humans (and not attributed to any deity!).

A written ethical code implies absolute moral imperatives. Also implied is some kind of objective base and external moral authority.

A moral relativist, I have not yet encountered an absolute moral imperative , nor any objective moral rule. The only moral authority I accept is conscience.

I not have the chutzpah to presume to tell other adults how to behave,nor generally speaking,do I care.

Pretty much this.

Moral subjectivism is as far as an atheist can coherent go without appealing to some magical realm where objective right and wrong can be grounded.
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Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by zvi - June 20, 2012 at 3:27 pm
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by padraic - June 21, 2012 at 1:38 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by Vincenzo Vinny G. - October 15, 2013 at 4:00 pm
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by zvi - June 21, 2012 at 1:41 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by padraic - June 22, 2012 at 1:25 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by zvi - June 22, 2012 at 8:37 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by pgrimes15 - June 22, 2012 at 10:03 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by zvi - June 22, 2012 at 10:51 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by pgrimes15 - June 22, 2012 at 11:15 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by zvi - June 22, 2012 at 11:43 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by Anomalocaris - June 22, 2012 at 12:06 pm
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by zvi - June 22, 2012 at 1:27 pm
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by padraic - June 22, 2012 at 7:41 pm
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by zvi - June 23, 2012 at 1:34 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by Cato - June 23, 2012 at 2:27 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by padraic - June 23, 2012 at 2:24 am
RE: Mutuality: A secular ethics project - by Dunno - October 14, 2013 at 1:28 pm

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