Nihilism and atheism (Endings)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Friday, June 05, 2009, 19:36 (5648 days ago) @ Matt S.

Matt S writes: "... in the absence of other people, morals of any kind mean absolutely nothing." - On the contrary I think ethics begins with the way you treat yourself. Don't you have standards that you try to keep up? Cleanliness, tidyness, avoiding self-deception, maintenance of self-respect, keeping a balance between work and leisure, keeping reasonably fit and healthy, ... these are just a few things that come to mind. Without this you cannot be ethical in your dealings with other people. I don't think this is just a matter of aesthetics. - I sometime think I'd like to call myself a "nihilist" in the cosmological sense of one who believes that everything came from nothing. That could be justified on etymological grounds, but of course is different from the usual sense of someone who believes "nothing matters".

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GPJ