05.08.08
Self-evident moral truth?
Is There At Least One Self-Evident Moral Truth?
Surprisingly, Christianity has a hard time answering this, at least to the satisfaction of skeptics: time for some Kantian studies of the categorical imperative, and a question for our Nietzschean secularists (as opposed to non-Nietzschean secularists): do Kant’s deductions resolve the question, and do so, contrary to appearances in Kant’s writings, by makind divinity secondary to the derivation.
The New Atheists have (or had) an opening here: Kantian attempts at such derivation, however problematical, give form to the question. But our Darwinian ideologists are too enamored of the economic real-politik scofflaw Nietzschean social darwinist free-for-all to actually press their case for an intelligent ‘new atheism’.
And they wonder why fundamentalism is resurgent.
Alf Janszoon said,
May 13, 2008 at 11:58 am
Morality and ethics belong to the realm of intra-human relations and based on the principle of reciprocity. No need to drag metaphysics in this realm. I intend to brush up my Arnold Gehlen on this subject: Moral und Hypermoral.