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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Autor principal: Loke, Andrew Ter Ern (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Springer Nature B. V 2023
En: International journal for philosophy of religion
Año: 2023, Volumen: 93, Número: 1, Páginas: 25-38
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Prueba moral de la existencia de Dios / Realismo moral / Moralidad / Deber / Ontología / Deducción
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AB Filosofía de la religión
NBC Dios
NCA Ética
VA Filosofía
VB Hermenéutica ; Filosofía
Otras palabras clave:B Theistic metaethics
B Moral argument
B Euthyphro dilemma
B Moral ontology
B Moral Obligation
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Sumario: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.
ISSN:1572-8684
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11153-022-09842-1