RE: Replacing Religious Morality
November 16, 2013 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2013 at 4:30 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
@Bipolar Bob
Because morality is about how you should act. Given we have values and the capacity to reason, there are going to be ways that are 'objectively better' in acting in accordance with and promoting those values. Of course behavior is going to change with the circumstances, but how you behave will be dictated by your moral values and views.
And you're going to need to defend the claim that there is no objective right and wrong. Given a certain set of values and what you mean by 'moral' and 'immoral', it can very much be said that there are in fact better ways to act in that framework.
Because morality is about how you should act. Given we have values and the capacity to reason, there are going to be ways that are 'objectively better' in acting in accordance with and promoting those values. Of course behavior is going to change with the circumstances, but how you behave will be dictated by your moral values and views.
And you're going to need to defend the claim that there is no objective right and wrong. Given a certain set of values and what you mean by 'moral' and 'immoral', it can very much be said that there are in fact better ways to act in that framework.
