Morality Without Gods | Open College No. 53 | Stephen Hicks
657 بار بازدید -
3 ماه پیش
-
Is morality natural or can
Is morality natural or can it only be explained and justified by referring to a supernatural Being?
The religious position is that nature cannot explain morality and therefore, we must believe in moral supernaturalism.
The natural position is that humans make choices. Reality provides a standard by which we can distinguish good from bad. Therefore, morality is a natural phenomenon.
On a personal level, should I decide on my core ethical values by 1) seeking direct communication with God or the gods or, 2) should I join an established religion and accept their code or, 3) simply copy the prevailing norms of society or, 4) should I independently judge what I consider to be good and bad?
For some time, Professor Hicks has been doing a philosophical analysis podcast on a wide range of contemporary topics. It has been available on a number of other platforms. It is now being offered on YouTube as well. Its mission is to “ to explain the chaos.”
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:31 Our question
01:40 Can social science data help? Virtuous atheists vs. vice-full theists?
04:02 Or we could look at psychological data.
04:40 The philosophical debate is my focus
06:16 The religious position
07:42 Naturalism vs atheism
08:58 Three different naturalistic accounts
09:20 The human power of rationality
10:26 The difference between life and death
11:52 The distinction between pleasure and pain
13:22 What about grounding morality in God's commands?
13:56 Point 1: Choosing among the many competing moral messages
18:30 Point 2: Every major religion demands complete acceptance
21:12 Point 3: "If God is real, is he owed our adoration and obedience?"
25:40 Point 4: Religious morality is often based on deep pessimism.
29:18 You may notice this is all an argument about human nature
30:01 Dostoevsky on the statement : "God is dead."
30:55 Atheists, like Freud, can also be deeply pessimistic.
32:05 Much of religion vs. naturalism debate turns on our assessment of human nature.
32:18 Human nature and the meaning of life
33:40 Along they way, bad things can happen to sabotage us
34:39 Christmas Christians vs. Good Friday Christians vs. Easter Christians
36:20 Is meaning to be found in this life or beyond?
39:29 How to think about death.
"Morality means only that you need to live now and not push living off into an ambiguous future..."
The debate referred to in this podcast can be found here: https://www.stephenhicks.org/religion...
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
Other links:
Explaining Postmodernism audiobook: Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen H...
Nietzsche and the Nazis audiobook: Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R....
Playlists:
Education Theory: Education Theory
Entrepreneurship and Values: Entrepreneurship and Values Series
Nietzsche: Nietzsche
The religious position is that nature cannot explain morality and therefore, we must believe in moral supernaturalism.
The natural position is that humans make choices. Reality provides a standard by which we can distinguish good from bad. Therefore, morality is a natural phenomenon.
On a personal level, should I decide on my core ethical values by 1) seeking direct communication with God or the gods or, 2) should I join an established religion and accept their code or, 3) simply copy the prevailing norms of society or, 4) should I independently judge what I consider to be good and bad?
For some time, Professor Hicks has been doing a philosophical analysis podcast on a wide range of contemporary topics. It has been available on a number of other platforms. It is now being offered on YouTube as well. Its mission is to “ to explain the chaos.”
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:31 Our question
01:40 Can social science data help? Virtuous atheists vs. vice-full theists?
04:02 Or we could look at psychological data.
04:40 The philosophical debate is my focus
06:16 The religious position
07:42 Naturalism vs atheism
08:58 Three different naturalistic accounts
09:20 The human power of rationality
10:26 The difference between life and death
11:52 The distinction between pleasure and pain
13:22 What about grounding morality in God's commands?
13:56 Point 1: Choosing among the many competing moral messages
18:30 Point 2: Every major religion demands complete acceptance
21:12 Point 3: "If God is real, is he owed our adoration and obedience?"
25:40 Point 4: Religious morality is often based on deep pessimism.
29:18 You may notice this is all an argument about human nature
30:01 Dostoevsky on the statement : "God is dead."
30:55 Atheists, like Freud, can also be deeply pessimistic.
32:05 Much of religion vs. naturalism debate turns on our assessment of human nature.
32:18 Human nature and the meaning of life
33:40 Along they way, bad things can happen to sabotage us
34:39 Christmas Christians vs. Good Friday Christians vs. Easter Christians
36:20 Is meaning to be found in this life or beyond?
39:29 How to think about death.
"Morality means only that you need to live now and not push living off into an ambiguous future..."
The debate referred to in this podcast can be found here: https://www.stephenhicks.org/religion...
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
Other links:
Explaining Postmodernism audiobook: Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen H...
Nietzsche and the Nazis audiobook: Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R....
Playlists:
Education Theory: Education Theory
Entrepreneurship and Values: Entrepreneurship and Values Series
Nietzsche: Nietzsche
3 ماه پیش
در تاریخ 1403/04/08 منتشر شده
است.
657
بـار بازدید شده