Mark Gardner

Hey, #atheist​s and other #secular types! Take the next step and question the provincial religious #morality you’re still rationalizing!

https://newideal.aynrand.org/religious-skeptics-should-question-their-moral-theology/

#philosophy #ethics #morals #values #reason #atheism #Aristotle #AynRand #PhilippaFoot #MichaelThompson #StevenPinker #Pinker #SamHarris #Harris #MichaelShermer #Shermer #Kant #Sidgwick #Rawls #Parfit #DavidHume #Hume #ACGrayling #Grayling #TrolleyProblem

Religious Skeptics Should Question Their Moral Theology

Appeals to the idea that morality is rooted in impartiality betray an uncritical parochialism unworthy of science.

New Ideal - Reason | Individualism | Capitalism
May 18, 2023 at 4:18amWeb
Show threadgrinMay 18, 2023
@mjgardner TL, interesting but... he lost me at "can’t all be true" because for me the "text/books" are different from "core values", or does he care about (institutionalised) religion or beliefs?
Show threadVictor GijsbersMay 18, 2023
@mjgardner I made an attempt to read this, ignoring for as long as I could the fact that it's apparently premised on the claim that the only alternative to theistic ethics is scientific naturalist ethics. (Whereas there are at least three prominent alternatives: idealism, moral error theory and moral constructivism.) But when the author gave a bad one-sentence summary of Kant and then dismissed it with the immature comment that Kant was clearly not interested in the truth, I gave up.
Show threadVictor GijsbersMay 18, 2023
@mjgardner This summary dismissal of Kant's attempt to ground ethics on reason is especially problematic because the status of reason is possibly the biggest problem for scientific naturalism. Scientific naturalism is a theory that requires reason as an absolute standard (since rational scientific inquiry is supposed to be the only access to independent reality) but can only understand it as a contingent psychological structure (since there's nothing else that facts about reason could be).
Show threadedgeoforever 🍎Jul 5, 2023
@mjgardner shorter version (reply)