(September 25, 2015 at 2:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 25, 2015 at 11:45 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: In what way, as an atheist, would you have said that man is less than perfect? What is the standard?In the sense that people are far less than what they could actually be. So much unfulfilled potential. But you ask a very good question. By what standard can an atheist make value judgments? It took me a while to realize that the moral theory of the Nichomachean Ethics that I espoused presupposed such a standard that, as an ontological naturalist, I could not supply.
It seems to me that our technology and knowledge about the sciences have advanced far beyond that of our forebears - but our morality has not.
We have better stuff, but we are not better people.