Thursday, January 21, 2016

The Athmor Paradox and the Argument from Conscience

The Atheist Morality paradox is a dilemna of atheists and agnostics that if there is atheist morality, what is it based on? the answer given may be 'on human reason and logic' but given the fact that morality is not amenable to scientific testing, this reason and logic will vary from person to person. Thus, there can be no objective morality based on reason and logic alone. 
Some people talk about atheist morality that atheists are as moral as theists or even better. the basic problem is that what thing are you basing your morality on? If the answer provided is reason, then each individual has his own reason. For example, a thief will argue that he gets easy money by stealing, then why should he work? This is the atheist morality paradox(athmor paradox). Actually, morality is something related to the soul and is non-material or spiritual. There can be no materialistic and objective reason for it . All material reasons cited are subjective and differ from person to person. In materialism, good cannot be proven to be good and bad cannot be proven to be bad. But everybody knows that whenever someone murders anyone else, one feels a bad feeling in the heart and one judges it to be bad. This judgement is not from any material reason only(though material reasons may be cited , which are however secondary), but by a moral and spiritual reason. this is the argument from conscience. No doubt, hormones play their role in it, but the ultimate perception of the good and the nad is related to the soul(see the concept of soul).

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