By Dima Zhyvov This post is a continuation of the moral argument. Please see Part 1, Part 2, Part3, Part 4, Part 5 if you have not read them yet. In previous parts I argued that naturalism, the thought that there is no such person as God or anything like God, ultimately fails to provide a sound basis for the existence [...]
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Arguments for God’s Existence-The Moral Argument (Part 6)
Posted: May 15, 2012 in Philosophy, Positive Apologetics, ReligionTags: morality, moral obligation, moral values, moral duties, moral argument, duties, features of morality, moral argument for God, naturalistic account, divine command theory, DCT, Robert Adams, finite and infinite goods, theory of ethics, theistic ethics, theistic theory of ethics, religious ethics, semantics, ontology, moral goodness, moral rightness, moraily, God and morality
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Arguments for God’s Existence-The Moral Argument (Part 5)
Posted: January 13, 2012 in Philosophy, Positive Apologetics, ReligionTags: atheist moral platonism, duties, existentialism, features of morality, Jean Paul Sartre, moral argument, moral argument for God, moral duties, moral obligation, moral values, morality, morality and self-interest, naturalistic account of morality, naturalized platonism, objective moral duty, platonism, platonized naturalism
By Dima Zhyvov This post is a continuation of the moral argument. Please see Part 1, Part 2, Part3, Part 4 if you have not read them yet. What I intend to do in this part of my article is to critically examine the two potential ways that atheists might avoid the conclusion of my [...]
Arguments for God’s Existence-The Moral Argument (Part 4)
Posted: January 4, 2012 in Philosophy, Positive Apologetics, ReligionTags: duties, features of morality, moral argument, moral argument for God, moral duties, moral obligation, moral values, morality, morality and self-interest, naturalistic account of morality, objective moral duty
By Dima Zhyvov This post is a continuation of the moral argument. Please see Part 1, Part 2, Part3 if you have not read them yet. Exploring features of morality I started out my article with the discussion of Lewis’ moral argument, which identifies, albeit implicitly, certain features of morality that are difficult to explain [...]
Arguments for God’s Existence-The Moral Argument (Part 3)
Posted: December 27, 2011 in Philosophy, Positive Apologetics, ReligionTags: evolutionary account of morality, mora, moral argument, moral argument for God's existence, moral duties, moral values, morality and God, objections to the moral argument
By Dima Zhyvov This post is a continuation of the moral argument. Please see Part 1, Part 2 if you have not read them yet. The existence of objective moral values and duties One obvious way to avoid the conclusion of my moral argument is to deny the existence of objective moral values and duties. [...]
Arguments for God’s Existence-The Moral Argument (Part 2)
Posted: December 27, 2011 in Philosophy, Positive Apologetics, ReligionTags: moral argument, moral argument for God's existence, moral duties, moral obligation, moral values, morality, morality and God
By Dima Zhyvov This post is a continuation of the moral argument. Please see Part 1 if you have not read it yet. Formulating the moral argument Let me clearly spell out the argument that I intend to defend, as well as some important concepts I will be employing. The argument goes something like this: [...]
