RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
February 16, 2017 at 2:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2017 at 3:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 16, 2017 at 2:44 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: So I am willing to grant assumptions both atheistic and theistic approaches could share such as, the existence of conscience and the cultural contingency of all moral systems, etc. with the understanding that these are ultimately grounded in moral absolutes that transcend any individual or culture.
I think that you'll find immense overlap in religious(particularly divine or "godly") and secular moralities. That's mostly due to there being nothing in any religious morality that could not be used in a secular morality other than "because god said so/made it so". Anything in a religious morality that does not depend strictly and solely on god saying so/making it so will find it easy to fit into a secular morality. Similarly, many religious moralities have leveraged secular moral proclamations. Reciprocity is, ofc, the famous example familiar to most christians.
You and I, in all likelihood, think that many of the same things are wrong, and for the same reasons.
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