(May 3, 2018 at 9:24 am)Kit Wrote:(May 3, 2018 at 9:20 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Western atheists that promote the "Good without God" simply take for granted that the behavioral norms and principles they consider self-evidently good and true are in fact predicated on Judeo-Christian principles.
Incorrect, for anthropologically speaking, morality (the concept of being good for the benefit of all) existed in society well before Judeo-christianity attempted to monopolize it.
You misunderstood. It is true that every culture and society has some kind of morality defining obligations and prohibitions, they are not identical because each is predicated on underlying assumptions about authority, human nature, and Man's place in the world. The moral principles of Western civilization are informed by underlying assumptions that come from Jewish and Christian traditions. The moral systems of ancient paganism, in Imperial China, among barbarian Germanic tribes, etc. were much different precisely because they did not have those traditions. If you want to know what morality looks like divorced from Judeo-Christian values all you need to do is read a little Nietzsche.
