Atheists Also Bound by Presuppositions in Philosophy and Ethics

Published on 3/7/2026, 9:27:46 AM

Even atheists are subject to presuppositions in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. There is no such thing as a "default" system when it comes to a status quo. Lockean civic philosophy is what became the norm, that doesn't mean people don't have the right to question it.

No he's right. It is a profoundly religious stance, in that the "religious anti-religion" is often commitment to faith based autonomous epistemology. In Heidegger, atheism fails because it still uses "calculative thinking" (subject/object) to ignore the question of Being.

Utter retardation from you. You only managed to deduce a descriptive 'is' in human history. That is not the same as grounding ethics on a more fundamental, ontological level as an ought. I get Hume diverted to subjectivity, but if you do that, you surrender your own worldview.

AI Editor's Note

Even atheists are subject to presuppositions in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. There is no such thing as a "default" system when it comes to a status quo. Lockean civic philosophy is what became the norm, that doesn't mean people don't have the right to question it.

No he's right. It is a profoundly religious stance, in that the "religious anti-religion" is often commitment to faith based autonomous epistemology. In Heidegger, atheism fails because it still uses "calculative thinking" (subject/object) to ignore the question of Being.

Utter retardation from you. You only managed to deduce a descriptive 'is' in human history. That is not the same as grounding ethics on a more fundamental, ontological level as an ought. I get Hume diverted to subjectivity, but if you do that, you surrender your own worldview.