Ayer Implications
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- Implications
- Morality
- Sharp - religious belief stops morality
- Without religion we would be more moral and rational
- Morality
- Sharp - religious belief stops morality
- Without religion we would be more moral and rational
- Lead to greater altruism
- Without religion we would be more moral and rational
- Lord Harris - if we get rid of Relgion and morality- society breaks down
- Life has no meaning or purpose? collpase in Society - begs question do we needt o beleive in a higher power to be better?
- No ultimate moral values (unverifiable) - only opinions - impossible to condem actions of others
- Sharp - religious belief stops morality
- Morality
- Lead to greater altruism
- Without religion we would be more moral and rational
- Lord Harris - if we get rid of Relgion and morality- society breaks down
- Life has no meaning or purpose? collpase in Society - begs question do we needt o beleive in a higher power to be better?
- No ultimate moral values (unverifiable) - only opinions - impossible to condem actions of others
- Sharp - religious belief stops morality
- Human experience
- Science
- Behe - Science - there is no evidence of sceince on a moledular level - God IS an intelligent designer
- Collins - DNA is the language of God
- Many parts of society based on religion - education , Justice, Healthcare
- Wilberforce -beleifs helped him abolsih slavery
- Martin Luther King - faith motivated him to fight for equal rights
- Wilberforce -beleifs helped him abolsih slavery
- Subjective perceptions of other such as love = meaningless (unverifiable)
- Singer - Emotivism
- Coppleston
- Singer - Emotivism
- Assumes intuitive knowledge of each other
- Subjective perceptions of other such as love = meaningless (unverifiable)
- Singer - Emotivism
- Coppleston
- Singer - Emotivism
- Goes against Donovan/Owen
- What about Swinburne ? Principle of Testimony
- Subjective perceptions of other such as love = meaningless (unverifiable)
- ayer later converted to Chirstianity
- Straw man arguement?
- Rejection of historic evident such as battle of hastings - what can be verified ?
- Science
- Religion
- Religion is a meme - virus developed through cultures - DAWKINS
- Freud - Totam Worship.
- Marx - Oppression
- Athiestic argumenets meaningless - so would "the first requisite for the happiness of the pople be the abolision of religion"
- Religious experience = in the mind - physcological illness - mystics = mental?
- Athiestic argumenets meaningless - so would "the first requisite for the happiness of the pople be the abolision of religion"
- Life after death becomes meaningless
- However - Hick Eschatological Principle
- Creationism unverifiable - neither is big bang
- Religion is a meme - virus developed through cultures - DAWKINS
- Morality
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