Skepdick wrote:
Quine would simply point out that if God, Nature and Reality are grounds for objective truth, they they are all cognitively synonymous. Those three different words mean exactly the same thing.
I understand and agree. Please let me explain. Leaving aside many people are still believers, when I mentioned God as defunct when I said "God" ,I was referring to the personal god whose proper name is God.I agree God is the same thing as Nature if 'God' refers to natura naturata + natura naturans. You will excuse the Latin if I explain these terms were Spinoza's. Natura naturata refers to the things or events of nature, and natura naturans refers to the continuing order of nature nature naturing itself.
However I can't think of any idea or ideology, even Spinoza's grand idea,as final. I think man is not a fixed thing but still evolves, and we cannot know if he will ever have fixed status in the natural order. So the question of objective basis for morality is an epistemological question.It's a question of which model, frame, or learning device we establish our thinking upon or within.
Immersed as we are in post-scientific enlightenment we cannot see where we are going next, if anywhere. We may be in touch with reality/god/nature however we cannot know this for sure. What matters is we are authentic searchers who help each other.
