By The Paperboy June 7, 2013 at The Palookaville
Press
A few questions friends…
If the reality of God is a cheat and we are
essentially molecules in motion and dancing to our own directionless DNA, then
how does a morality gain credence: not just one that suits my own whims, but
one that has the intrinsic authority for humans to set their ethical compass
by?
In the shadow of the above worldview, how does one
move from a non-moral beginning through an amoral process and arrive at a moral
reasoning that all should respect?
What is the origin of inalienable rights and do
these rights differ from statutory human constructs of normative political
convention?
If there is no ontological Archimedean point such as
an unshadowed God, then are not all things fundamentally permitted, with the
only difference being how many people one can get to assent to one’s vision of
the Good?
How does a strictly materialist conception of Man
address Evil and how do we ultimately know Good since to possess any
universality that would preclude a sense of duty, these antipodes must be
emanations of a transcendent moral law—and an unchanging moral law infers an
unchanging Legislator?
If we then dispense with this Divine Legislator and
His attendant Moral Law, does not the causal chain and the entire edifice
dissolve upon contact—–leaving us with naked Human Will and nothing
more—Self-Creating Man as the arbiter of all things?
If we are fundamentally honest with ourselves, we
must admit that moral values that are derived wholly upon what we arrogantly
believe as based in Human Rationalism, must indeed rest precariously on the
shifting sands of arbitrary cultural expedience—–a navigational star that is in
fact a meteorite.
The
Professor
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