... consciousness moral Descartes René Meditations Descartes Plato Third Meditation Descartes afterlife atheism beatitude The Good Will Paton happiness Paton H J rewards and punishments ethics immortality Jesus revelation goodness duty beatitude order of being order of knowing H. P. Owen moral...

... this, and distinguished between the order of knowing and the order of being, and this is a crucial distinction to bear in mind when it comes to ethics. We may learn that stealing is wrong from reading an ethicist, but the wrongness of stealing has its springs in different sources entirely. Thus atheists make a good point...