attempted dovetailing of theistic and natural moral theory
Submitted by magilum on August 16, 2008 - 5:31pm.
each of us has principles, and justification of them
these concepts are valuations and prescriptions combined indiscriminately
sets of these concepts form a moral theory
to regard a valuation or justification is to regard the prescription
to question the former is to question the latter
justifications can be reified and made into myths
to regard the reified justification is to regard the valuation and prescription
to question the former is to question the latter
prescriptions can exist without justification, simply assumed
to regard justification and valuation is not to regard prescription
prescriptions can be described without questioning their use
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Because we have to live
Because we have to live together and pedantry doesn't work. Because the average person doesn't care about facts. Because we already share more common moral ground than not, but we talk about it in different ways.
Indeed, I / WE are god, and
Indeed, I / WE are god, and god is not "perfect", in the sense that god is all things, yin yang, but we can try to improve for the sakes of what WE are .... for we are condemned to be god.
Atheism Books.
Questions, comments,
Questions, comments, criticisms? Is it clear, unclear, wrong?
Essentially, I'm saying that where facts, opinions, and prescriptions are strongly distinguished from one another, it's easy to abandon religious language for more precise terminology, or to accept the values of society as self-justifying, or on practical terms, without the need for a superfluous meta-justification. When we ask a religious person to give up myth x, we're asking them to abandon their only known justification for prescription y; that x isn't necessary to y falls outside the disorganized taxonomy of religious ideas.
I think I follow and totally
I think I follow and totally agree. Religion is a complicated mental pollution problem with no easy cure yet found. Religion is an abandonment from reality. Religion is separatism from the simple principal of simple Oneness.
Atheism Books.