Godless & Moral: Exploring morality without God.

About Godless & Moral: Exploring morality without God.

Podcast Godless & Moral Explore morality without God. What remains when we leave religion behind? Godless & Moral is a secular and openly atheist project dedicated to one of the most difficult questions in philosophy: how can we understand morality without appealing to God, divine revelation, or religious authority? If there is no divine lawgiver, what grounds the distinction between good and evil, right and wrong? Can moral obligations be objective? Can reason, human flourishing, suffering, cooperation, virtue, or rationality provide a foundation for morality? Or does abandoning religion inevitably lead to moral relativism? The blog explores these questions through secular ethics, moral philosophy, metaethics, evolutionary perspectives on morality, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, deontology, rationality, and moral realism and anti-realism. Atheism is not the sole subject of Godless & Moral. It is the starting point: the intellectual premise that allows us to ask what morality might look like once supernatural foundations are removed. Two particularly important influences on the project are Richard Carrier and Sam Harris. Their work provides very different, sometimes complementary, approaches to secular morality and the relationship between reason, human well-being, and ethics. Their ideas—and the criticisms they have received—will frequently appear throughout the project. But Godless & Moral is not about defending a single philosopher or presenting a finished secular moral system. It is about testing ideas. If morality can exist without God, we should be able to examine its foundations without invoking God. And if secular morality has weaknesses, contradictions, or unanswered questions, those weaknesses deserve to be exposed as well. No divine commands. No sacred answers. Just the difficult question: How should we live?

Publisher

Jorge Guerra Pires, Ph.D

Category

education · religion & spirituality · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Aug 2026

Latest episode

27 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Objective morality is a biological reality | an analysis of Ayer, A. J.

   Analysis of Ayer, A. J. (1946). Language, Truth and Logic (2nd ed.). London: Penguin Books / Victor Gollancz. (Originally published 1936) = Godless & Moral explores morality from a secular and atheistic perspective. What grounds good and evil, right and wrong, when we abandon God and religious authority? Drawing on philosophy, science, and thinkers like Richard Carrier and Sam Harris, we explore how morality might stand on its own. Read my books!

2. 

   26 Sept 2026

   Is morality a feeling or an equation?

   References 1. Primary Sources Ayer, A. J. (1946). Language, Truth and Logic (2nd ed.). London: Penguin Books / Victor Gollancz. (Originally published 1936).Guerra Pires, J. (2026). The Anachronistic Misuse of Ayer Against Naturalist Moral Realism.Guerra Pires, J. (Host), Benites, M., & Leroy, D. (Guests). O emotivismo é melhor que o realismo moral? [Video / Podcast transcript].Guerra Pires, J. (Host), Carrier, R., & Leroy, D. (Guests). Richard Carrier, Daniel Leeroy, Jorge Pires: Can ...

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Emotivism vs. Realism: Are moral laws as real as physics?

   Learn more: Is emotivism better than moral realism? = Godless & Moral explores morality from a secular and atheistic perspective. What grounds good and evil, right and wrong, when we abandon God and religious authority? Drawing on philosophy, science, and thinkers like Richard Carrier and Sam Harris, we explore how morality might stand on its own. Read my books!

4. 

   8 Sept 2026

   Bodily Autonomy Beyond the Personhood Trap

   Learn more: The Strongest Pro-Choice Argument Is Not About the Fetus = Godless & Moral explores morality from a secular and atheistic perspective. What grounds good and evil, right and wrong, when we abandon God and religious authority? Drawing on philosophy, science, and thinkers like Richard Carrier and Sam Harris, we explore how morality might stand on its own. Read my books!

5. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Morality and AI: What do you mean by morality?

   This is a preparation for a set of episodes from a conversation I had with Richard Carrier and Daniel Leeroy about morality and AI. = Godless & Moral explores morality from a secular and atheistic perspective. What grounds good and evil, right and wrong, when we abandon God and religious authority? Drawing on philosophy, science, and thinkers like Richard Carrier and Sam Harris, we explore how morality might stand on its own. Read my books!

6. 

   16 Aug 2026

   The Physics of Morality with Richard Carrier

   This is the first episode of the podcast, and I would like to start with an interview I conducted with Richard Carrier about his moral system. I think this is the best way to begin! = Godless & Moral explores morality from a secular and atheistic perspective. What grounds good and evil, right and wrong, when we abandon God and religious authority? Drawing on philosophy, science, and thinkers like Richard Carrier and Sam Harris, we explore how morality might stand on its own....

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