It paraphrases the bottom line of the metaethics sequence—or what I took to be the bottom line of those posts, anyway. Namely, that one can have values and a naturalistic worldview at the same time.
I’d say “moral atheism” is being used as an idiomatic expression; a set of more than one word with a meaning that’s gestalt to its individual components. One of the synonyms for “atheism” is “godlessness”, so by analogy “moral atheism” would just mean “morality-lessness”.
We have a word for “morality-lessness”, and it is amorality, which coincidentally works more naturally in your analogy: If morality is analogous to theism, then a-morality is analogous to a-theism.
I hope you understand my trouble with the use of an idiom that implicitly equates morality with theism. (Well, amorality with atheism, which is more the problem.)
(sorry about all the edits, this was written horribly.)
-Charles Kingsley
Explain?
It paraphrases the bottom line of the metaethics sequence—or what I took to be the bottom line of those posts, anyway. Namely, that one can have values and a naturalistic worldview at the same time.
So, having values is moral theism? The choice of words seems suspect.
I’d say “moral atheism” is being used as an idiomatic expression; a set of more than one word with a meaning that’s gestalt to its individual components. One of the synonyms for “atheism” is “godlessness”, so by analogy “moral atheism” would just mean “morality-lessness”.
We have a word for “morality-lessness”, and it is amorality, which coincidentally works more naturally in your analogy: If morality is analogous to theism, then a-morality is analogous to a-theism.
I hope you understand my trouble with the use of an idiom that implicitly equates morality with theism. (Well, amorality with atheism, which is more the problem.)
(sorry about all the edits, this was written horribly.)