Sunday, February 09, 2020

The autonomy objection to religious morality

The autonomy objection to religious morality puzzles me. If you think there is a perfect being who loves you, and who has some clues as to how to live a better, more moral life, would you be foolish not to take them? On the other hand, if no such being exists, that would be another matter.

4 comments:

Kevin said...

I've seen it argued that a perfect being would not be a "tyrant" dictating what you must do. An incredibly ridiculous notion, but also not uncommon.

One Brow said...

If you think there is a perfect being who loves you, and who has some clues as to how to live a better, more moral life, would you be foolish not to take them?

Even when the clues changed, or even reversed themselves, over a period of generations?

Kevin said...

Even when the clues changed, or even reversed themselves, over a period of generations?

If you thought this way, you probably wouldn't think such a being exists.

But what if you did think such a being existed? Would it be foolish to then ignore what that being says?

One Brow said...

I never doubt the limits of cognitive dissonance.

I agree that ignoring such a being would be foolish. Not so sure about blindly following it.