Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Our moral sense
We humans have an evolved moral sense that we ever need to refine. Our received moral sentiments implore us to implement ways to ensure rights for all,disregarding any tastes and whims. That sentiment drives us to be more moral than those of the ages of faith.What dastardly deprecations of duplicity in sentiment do theists rail for God as the ontological ground of morality when theirs failed to be moral itself!
And what general divine command for morality would do anyway when as the Euthyphro teaches either He depends on morality or else He could make the immoral moral. And the same dilemma applies when theists then try to gainsay this with why, His nature is good by definition:is it good due to an outside source or does He arbitrarily make it good, and despite Aquinas, that definition begs the question of his very nature.
God speaks with a forked tongue-all those different sects clamoring differently about morality!
To announce that He is the prime mover behind this sense also begs the question. Evolution gave it to us. We ever have to use our reason to further its implications.
Our very humanity grounds ontologically our morality!
And by meaningfull discussions can we develop that planetrary ethic for which the late,gat Paul Kurtz exhorted us to develop: we can have an objective,realist morality!
And what general divine command for morality would do anyway when as the Euthyphro teaches either He depends on morality or else He could make the immoral moral. And the same dilemma applies when theists then try to gainsay this with why, His nature is good by definition:is it good due to an outside source or does He arbitrarily make it good, and despite Aquinas, that definition begs the question of his very nature.
God speaks with a forked tongue-all those different sects clamoring differently about morality!
To announce that He is the prime mover behind this sense also begs the question. Evolution gave it to us. We ever have to use our reason to further its implications.
Our very humanity grounds ontologically our morality!
And by meaningfull discussions can we develop that planetrary ethic for which the late,gat Paul Kurtz exhorted us to develop: we can have an objective,realist morality!
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