--- Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> wrote: > ---
Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:
>
> > > > Well, I suspect I'm not entirely alone in
> > > > thinking that Gods and ethical duties both
> > > > belong to the immaterial.
> > >
> > >I don't see religion or gods (or
> > >Gods for those that prefer) are prerequisites for
> > >ethics.
> >
> > I don't think that religion (in the usual sense)
> is
> > a prerequisite for
> > ethics. I do however argue that consistent
> > materialism has to deny both.
>
> Why is this? I can see that it would most likely
> deny
> religion (at least religion in a spiritual sense,
> the
> way a dictionary might define it). Not sure I'd
> agree
> that materialists are necessarily unethical, though.
>
i vacillate ( when i bother to think about it )between
radical materialism and radical idealism ( i'm a
monist but can't make up my mind which of the two
possible modes of stuff to take as primary )
but i would say i have a pretty strong sense of ethics
bn
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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre
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