RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 1:01 pm by Whateverist.)
(June 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The question I have for atheists is how do we know what IS good?
You know how we are all immediately aware of so many things but only a few can be held consciously at any one time? Well what is 'good' -or, what is more important, what will likely lose your social group's approval- is one of those things. Now which of the countless factors our brains choose to present for conscious consideration isn't actually up to us. It happens pre-consciously. So rather than appeal to a master-of-the-universe (not that there is anything wrong with that), I'd like to describe the apprehension of morally significant factors as a disturbance in the force. Evolution has resulted in conscious experience and has selected for individuals whose brains present the most salient factors for conscious consideration.
Is that a satisfactory answer?
