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Atheism and Morality, Guilt and Shame: Why the Moral Complacency of the New Atheism is a Mistake
Author(s) -
Lynch Tony,
Dahanayake Nishanathe
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12147
Subject(s) - morality , shame , atheism , mistake , philosophy , nothing , epistemology , psychology , law , social psychology , political science
When it comes to morality, the New Atheists appear to think that their rejection of religion, except for the removal of fundamentalist distortions, changes nothing. We think that this is because they have not thought things through. Atheism might not be a threat to shame morality, but it is certainly a threat to guilt morality. Given that there are reasons to doubt the viability today of shame morality, we face a far greater problem if atheism triumphs than the New Atheists admit.