Eudaimonist
I believe in life before death!
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Agreed. Any ethics needs a standard of the good in order for one action to be preferable to another.
I personally find the legal analogy to be weak. Morality isn't necessarily like a legal code with "legal" and "illegal" actions. It can be more like a user's manual that gives an understanding of practices and consequences (such as the warning: "there is an electrocution risk for drying your hair while in the bathtub"), and advice for the proper care and maintenance of one's life. That fits the concept of a standard.
There are no laws without lawgivers, but there can be an understanding of the good without lawgivers. The good can be a function of what one is, rather than what a cosmic entity commands.
Simply untrue in my case. I don't believe in divine command theory in ethics, but that does not mean that I don't have a concept of "good". I certainly do, but it has nothing to do with "laws".
Oh, I believe that the standard of the human good is determined by their natural function, and is thus "fixed". Human well-being is what it is.
Atheism does not say that morality does not exist, or that concepts do not exist.
eudaimonia,
Mark
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