RE: Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?
May 8, 2016 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2016 at 10:21 am by Edwardo Piet.)
@ Rob
I think an interesting debate for you to watch would be this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm2wShHJ2iA
I watched it for the first time last night. Whilst I already disagree with William Lane Craig in all debates I have never seen him so utterly destroyed in a debate. He was reduced to a bumbling little schoolboy sounding very confused...
I think it's also interesting because my guess is you will agree with Shelly Kagan that God isn't necessary for morality, but you will agree with WLC that Shelly Kagan's arguments for objective morality fail and don't prove any objective morality. But regardless of whether you agree with Kagan's arguments for objective morality, you have to admit, wow, Shelly Kagan absolutely destroyed WLC.
I think my own views are more along the lines of Sam Harris', but although I think Sam Harris defeated WLC in debate as well as being correct, even though I don't particularly agree with Kagan a lot -- this debate was the first time I had even heard of Shelly Kagan or seen anything by him, and I have to admit he is an amazing debater and absolutely destroyed WLC, I've never seen anything like it.
-Hammy
I think an interesting debate for you to watch would be this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm2wShHJ2iA
I watched it for the first time last night. Whilst I already disagree with William Lane Craig in all debates I have never seen him so utterly destroyed in a debate. He was reduced to a bumbling little schoolboy sounding very confused...
I think it's also interesting because my guess is you will agree with Shelly Kagan that God isn't necessary for morality, but you will agree with WLC that Shelly Kagan's arguments for objective morality fail and don't prove any objective morality. But regardless of whether you agree with Kagan's arguments for objective morality, you have to admit, wow, Shelly Kagan absolutely destroyed WLC.
I think my own views are more along the lines of Sam Harris', but although I think Sam Harris defeated WLC in debate as well as being correct, even though I don't particularly agree with Kagan a lot -- this debate was the first time I had even heard of Shelly Kagan or seen anything by him, and I have to admit he is an amazing debater and absolutely destroyed WLC, I've never seen anything like it.
-Hammy
