Yes, that's the main failure mode of ethical naturalism. "You must die, because SCIENCE!"
What would the progressive atheist's answer be to the challenge of producing virtue from matter? I'd try writing that one as well, but I think I'd end up caricaturing it.
Yes, that's the main failure mode of ethical naturalism. "You must die, because SCIENCE!"
My libertarian shard says it's the main failure mode of politics: "You must die, because POWER!"
What would the progressive atheist's answer be to the challenge of producing virtue from matter?
No idea, but mine is game theory coupled with compassion — a System 2 mathematical insight and a System 1 intuitive and trained response. Ethics comes down to symmetry among agents: my good is no more or less The Good than your good. Humans can recogniz...
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