simmi
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philosotard
| Quote (Rude @ UD) | | There is an atheist argument that could be made and that would be via a kind of Platonism. Just as physicists tend to be mathematical Platonists (e.g., numbers are real, they’re actually “out there” and not just the rustling of neurons in the head), so also moral principles are real. The argument seems to me to be very much like the argument for natural law. The problem is that atheists tend to hate this argument—maybe because they don’t really want there to be a universal ethics. |
"They" don't want there to be a universal ethics, which is why they espouse Platonism. WTF?? Just yesterday I was talking to my Platonic-moral-relativist buddy who told me about the nice chat he had with our common Kantian-utilitarian acquaintance.
(scare quotes around "they" because Rude means atheists but unconsciously or consciously means everyone/anyone who disagrees with him/her)
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