RE: Does Atheism Lead to Nihilism?
March 11, 2015 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2015 at 7:41 pm by Pizza.)
(March 11, 2015 at 7:22 pm)wiploc Wrote:(March 11, 2015 at 7:18 pm)IATIA Wrote: IMHO, it does open the door. It is then one's choice to step through or not.
Why doesn't theism open the door to nihilism? Theists like to claim we're supposed to comply with an objective standard that we don't make up ourselves. We don't get to vote on it. We don't have to agree with it. It doesn't have to be good for us. There doesn't have to be anything good about it.
If that isn't nihilism, what is?
And how does having this code dictated by an invisible eccentric make it "objective"?
Professor Wiki Wrote:Moral nihilism (also known as ethical nihilism) is the meta-ethical view that nothing is intrinsically moral or immoral. For example, a moral nihilist would say that killing someone, for whatever reason, is neither inherently right nor inherently wrong. Moral nihilists consider morality to be constructed, a complex set of rules and recommendations that may give a psychological, social, or economical advantage to its adherents, but is otherwise without universal or even relative truth in any sense.[1]We are talking about the rejection of intrinsic value not extrinsic value.
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