The problem of the origin of morality in the new Atheism

The relationship between religion and morality, which is one of the most important issues in the history of thought, still maintains its actuality. For those who attribute the source of existence to God, the source of morality is divine commandments in approaches that are not based on belief in God, the basis of morality is reason, emotion and intuition. The idea of the new atheism is the modern understanding of atheism in the sense of the negation of God. This understanding based the source of existence on the Darwinian theory of evolution and dealt with the source of morality with an approach far removed from divine belief. This study examined the debates around the relationship between religion and morality in the history of ideas in the context of philosophy of religion, in particular, it focused on the ideas of the New-Atheist thinkers who became famous as the "Four Horsemen", which formed our main subject, about the source of morality.