I've read attempts at a materialist morality, but they fail for exactly the reason you point out: they lack the most basic connection to our everyday experience of morality. Conscience, and morality itself, impose obligation: one that points towards a transcendental end.
We don't want some beautiful object because it's beautiful, or to do good things because they're good: we seek The Beautiful and The Good in themselves. That end, according to classical theism, is God. Put another way, you do not need to believe in God to be good (as atheists sometimes claim theists argue), but to seek The Good is to have an experience of God.
There is a kind of inherent teleology in this. God is, as Dante describes in the final lines of his Divine Comedy, "The Love impelled / that moves the Sun in heaven and all the stars."
That footnote probably explains 99% of virtue signaling on social media and suggests, in terms of evolutionary psychology, that men have begun to adopt the feminine survival strategy.
Beautiful piece (Cairo Smith brought me here).
thank GOD for HIS order - I loved this Audrey! Thank you for sharing <3
Well said!
I've read attempts at a materialist morality, but they fail for exactly the reason you point out: they lack the most basic connection to our everyday experience of morality. Conscience, and morality itself, impose obligation: one that points towards a transcendental end.
We don't want some beautiful object because it's beautiful, or to do good things because they're good: we seek The Beautiful and The Good in themselves. That end, according to classical theism, is God. Put another way, you do not need to believe in God to be good (as atheists sometimes claim theists argue), but to seek The Good is to have an experience of God.
There is a kind of inherent teleology in this. God is, as Dante describes in the final lines of his Divine Comedy, "The Love impelled / that moves the Sun in heaven and all the stars."
love this. it’s wonderful
Men don't see more clearly. They can simply resort to violence.
I do not agree or endorse the ideas in the footnote i wrote
That footnote probably explains 99% of virtue signaling on social media and suggests, in terms of evolutionary psychology, that men have begun to adopt the feminine survival strategy.