It's often assumed that without God, then there can be no morality. This assumption though, is rarely given a robust justification. The fact that this sentiment is so poorly defended and is yet widespread (even some atheists accept it!) leads me to believe that it's an intuition built into us. I wonder if this intuition can count as a moral intuition. Because a naturalist moral realist is going to want to deny as few widespread moral intuitions as possible, they should give weight this specific moral intuition. Thus, their credence in God's existence should be raised.
The second premise in the moral argument, that morality is objective, is even more rarely give a justification. Beyond "it's obvious" (which will obviously only work for people who already agree with you) and "everybody agrees that X is wrong so X must be objectively wrong" (X here can be killing babies, raping children, pizza with pineapple...), I haven't really seen any justification that morality is objective.
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ReplyDeleteLove what you do! How do you justify that morality necessitates a God? I think that the previous comment raises a good point! Can you elaborate? Thanks.
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Matt
It's a common belief in modern western societies but people already had moral intuitions before being introduced to a moral God. The people you encounter map morality onto God because that is how they were raised. You would have to show that people in other societies also share that tendency. You'll be hard pressed to do so.
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