RE: Atheism, Gnosticism & the Problem of Evil
March 16, 2021 at 2:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2021 at 2:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Not in the sense meaningful to moral discourse. Consider this.
A human being, a chair, and a moral proposition - can all be non natural...though each and every item is quite literally made of nature, instantiated within nature. What you're talking about when you say " a chair is a natural product"...is not what moral philosophy is talking about when it elaborates on natural and non natural products.
Beyond that, though, the disagreement wouldn't resolve the issue in your formulation. Contending that morality is an evolved instinct...therefore.....a product of nature- can only work if the thing before the therefore is true. Do you think that there might be some difference between morality, the field of play, the respect to which things are right or wrong, and our evolved moral sense or intuitions? Unpeeling the onion even further...suppose that a chair -was- a natural product, is it natural product because your evolved sense of touch makes it so?
A human being, a chair, and a moral proposition - can all be non natural...though each and every item is quite literally made of nature, instantiated within nature. What you're talking about when you say " a chair is a natural product"...is not what moral philosophy is talking about when it elaborates on natural and non natural products.
Beyond that, though, the disagreement wouldn't resolve the issue in your formulation. Contending that morality is an evolved instinct...therefore.....a product of nature- can only work if the thing before the therefore is true. Do you think that there might be some difference between morality, the field of play, the respect to which things are right or wrong, and our evolved moral sense or intuitions? Unpeeling the onion even further...suppose that a chair -was- a natural product, is it natural product because your evolved sense of touch makes it so?
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