Sometimes atheists become enamored with some pretty psychologically shallow memes. In this post, I fisk one.
Oh You Can Get Good People To Do Bad Things Without Religion Alright…
Filed Under: Atheism, Ethics, Moral Psychology Tagged With: Are people basically evil?, Are people basically good?, Are people evil?, Are people good?, But for good people to do evil things that takes religion, Cultural Relativism, Does religion make people evil?, Dutifulness, Ethics, ethics of duty, Moral Philosophy, moral philospohy, Moral Psychology, Philosophical Ethics, religion and morality, Self-Righteousness, Steven Weinberg, stoic psychology, Stoicism, that takes religion.", Vices, Virtues, Weakness of Will, why do good people do evil, With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things But for good people to do evil things that takes religion 30 Comments
A Map With A Few of My Paths to Objective Morality
Yesterday I kicked off a series called “Paths to Objective Morality”. In response to commenters vigorously challenging my choice of vocabulary in calling morality “objective”, I decided to lay out my justification for my word choice systematically and to explain how it will be justified in each of the major components of my overall account of [...]
Filed Under: Atheism, Authority, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Historical Ethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy Tagged With: Consequentialism, Duties, Ethics, Ethics of Power, Moral Normativity, Moral Rules, Morality, Objective Morality, Objective Normative Force, Ontological Objective Morality, Power Consequentialism, Subjective Morality 14 Comments
On the Moral Value (and Dangers) of Dutifulness
What kinds of motives are morally relevant? Which are important? Why are they important? When are they important? How do they relate to one another? What are their respective places in the best overall moral framework? In a few posts I hope to answer such questions as these. I am going to distinguish various kinds [...]
Filed Under: Applied Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethics, Intellectual Virtues, Love, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Virtues Tagged With: Anti-Authoritarianism, Conformism, Conscientiousness, Dutifulness, Duty, Ethics, Kantian Ethics, Moral Value of Conscientiousness, Moral Value of Dutifulness, Morality, Servility 2 Comments
Further Towards A “Non-Moral” Standard Of Ethical Evaluation
In reply to a recent post, Tyler writes: Your definition of ethics and morality is well taken and allows for further interesting debate on culture and moral systems but it still requires assumption of benefit. Defining phrases like “fully flourishing life” and “most excellent characters we can develop” require a standard of evaluation which I [...]
Filed Under: Authority, Duty, Ethical Pluralism, Uncategorized Tagged With: Arete, Atheistic Ethics, Autonomy, Care, Equality, Ethics, Evolutionary Psychology, Excellence, Fairness, Fruits and Ladders, Harm, Human Flourishing, Ingroup Loyalty, Jonathan Haidt, Justice, Moral Goods, Moral Psychology, Moralism, Motives, My Theory of Morality's Rational Foundations and Nature, Non-Moral Goods, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Purity, Quality vs. Quantity, Sociobiology, Tyler Samien, Values, Virtues 1 Comment
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