A New Moral Argument for the existence of God
I offer a new deductive formulation of the Moral Argument for the existence of God which shows how one might argue for the conclusion that, if one affirms moral realism (traditionally understood as a metaethical view which acknowledges the existence of objective moral truths), one should affirm thei...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Springer Nature B. V
2023
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Ano: 2023, Volume: 93, Número: 1, Páginas: 25-38 |
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Prova moral da existência de Deus
/ Realismo moral
/ Moralidade
/ Dever
/ Ontologia
/ Dedução
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AB Filosofia da religião NBC Deus NCA Ética VA Filosofia VB Hermenêutica ; Filosofia |
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Theistic metaethics
B Moral argument B Euthyphro dilemma B Moral ontology B Moral Obligation |
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| Resumo: | I offer a new deductive formulation of the Moral Argument for the existence of God which shows how one might argue for the conclusion that, if one affirms moral realism (traditionally understood as a metaethical view which acknowledges the existence of objective moral truths), one should affirm theism. The new formulation shows that these objective moral truths are either brute facts, or they are metaphysically grounded in an impersonal entity, a non-divine personal entity, or a divine personal entity i.e., God. I illustrate how the alternatives to God can in principle be excluded based on the essential characteristics of those alternative hypotheses and of certain objective moral truths. I demonstrate that my deductive formulation is better than other formulations, and that it is helpful for future work on the Moral Argument. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-022-09842-1 |