Moral Relativism

JimEverett said

A moral imerative has the same problems. I mean Kant believed in was something implanted by God - which seems like an easy way out of explanation. But even if you believe it follows logically or naturally from "reason" it seems pretty easy to come up with moral choices on which plenty of otherwise reasonable people disagree.

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Oh, I completely agree -- I started a thread once stating that there is no such thing as absolute individual morality without a god or some sort of metaphysical construct.

I also said in another thread about what would happen if it was proven without a doubt that there is no god, that if I did not believe in a god, I'd probably switch my philosophical outlook from a Kantian viewpoint to a Nietzschen (sp?) one.

Basically, the concept of absolute individual morality is a non-starter without a god of some sort. Societal morals can still be tied to species survival.