RE: Does Atheism Lead to Nihilism?
March 10, 2015 at 5:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 5:56 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 10, 2015 at 5:03 pm)SteveII Wrote: So it seems that at least for some of you ethics shift from person to person from group to group and from generation to generation. This seems consistent with the logical conclusions of atheism (and the nihilism that follows). This I understand.That's because Esquilax (as I interpret him) is working off the conception of what most people understand to be the good things in life: freedom, security, happiness, etc.; from that common agreement, we have a framework by which to analyze actions objectively.
Others (Esquilax) seem to believe reality to be a sufficient objective framework upon which to hang morality. This I don't understand.
Until you come up with your own framework, Steve, your usage of moral concepts is vacuous. And trying to ground them in an equally vacuous notion of deity does not help you.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza