(May 31, 2015 at 10:18 am)learncritic Wrote: Guys. Hello.
I understand that Atheism is a rejection of existence of God, or more broadly speaking (and correct me if I am wrong) rejection of all metaphysical realities. For example, Afterlife, Angels, Heaven/Hell, Satan, etc.
But what is the philosophical underpinning for rejection of God?
Is it Naturalism? Empiricism? Materialism?
Thanks.
You have things backwards. One does not need an argument to not believe in something. (Do you form an argument to not believe that there is a dragon under my bed? My guess is, the idea that a dragon was under Pyrrho's bed never even occurred to you before you read that sentence. So how could you have had an argument about it?) The question is, why does someone believe in a god? There is no good reason to believe in a god, and so one ought not believe in one.
And, as has already been said, atheism is about just one thing, about whether there is a god(s) or not. It is not about anything else.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
