What is it about?
This essay defends the idea that one does not have to have faith in any god or gods to support the morality that she or he holds. Previous Humanist attempts to do this are rejected. Then Hume's idea that one can't get from facts to values is opposed by arguing that to know certain concepts presupposes that one understands that they already have positive or negative moral implications. This argument is made on Wittgensteinian grounds. The essay goes on to consider various moral positions.
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Why is it important?
Atheism is rejected and in fact slandered by the false claim that one cannot be moral without holding to on "faith" or another. It is hoped that this essay will encourage non-believers to assert that they are moral - and why. This may encourage readers who may be "in the closet" regarding their atheism to come out. One aim of the essay is to support the increasing secularization of the USA.
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I believe that this essay fills an important gap in the way atheism is presented to the public. Non-belief is falsely rejected as amoral - which it is not.
Dr Alan Mandelberg
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This page is a summary of: Morality Without God, Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, July 2015, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/eph.v23i1.26373.
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