The Euthyphro dilemma is often brought up when discussing morality and ethics. The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, “Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” (10a) Although it was originally …
Gary Whittenberger on Meta Ethics: Toward a Universal Ethics — How Science & Reason Can Give Us Objective Moral Truths Without God: He starts by defining a moral rule: A moral rule is any proposition, claim, or assertion which guides or governs the interactions of persons with respect to some end or objective. Moral rules …
Doris Schroeder discusses Evolutionary Ethics in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Evolutionary ethics tries to bridge the gap between philosophy and the natural sciences by arguing that natural selection has instilled human beings with a moral sense, a disposition to be good. https://iep.utm.edu/evol-eth/ It implicitly acknowledges only humans have morality: If this were true, morality …
Michael Tomasello discusses The Origins of Human Morality in Scientific American: If evolution is about survival of the fittest, how did humans ever become moral creatures? If evolution is each individual maximizing their own fitness, how did humans come to feel that they really ought to help others and be fair to them? https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti … …
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There has been a push by evolutionists to claim evolutionary biology can explain morality. The article “Morality and Evolutionary Biology” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy discusses this: “Perhaps [biologists] can eventually do what philosophers have never managed, and explain moral behavior in an intellectually satisfying way.” These passages epitomize a growing theme in the …
One attempt to argue objective morality exists from an atheistic perspective is by Ronald Lindsay. The thesis of this essay is that morality is not objective in the same way that statements of empirically verifiable facts are objective, yet morality is objective in the ways that matter: moral judgments are not arbitrary; we can have …
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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” Richard Dawkins A foundational assumption of skeptics to claim there are moral …
First thing I want to point out is by making an ethical judgment on the God of the Old Testament, it does not demonstrate whether he exists or not. It’s not logical to complain about the moral attributes of an entity if that entity does not exist. I’m not going to go around complaining that …
Next going to address the ethical issues of the Old Testament. This is another huge area and is commonly brought up by skeptics. I would even venture to say this is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for unbelievers. Here’s a sampling of recent posts: otseng wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:03 am Athetotheist wrote: …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hum … _1754.jpeg David Hume (1711-1776) is often cited by skeptics to dispute miraculous claims and to dismiss Christianity. Hume wrote about it in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding: Our Evidence, then, for the Truth of the Christian Religion is less than the Evidence for the Truth of our Senses; because, even in the first …