RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
July 8, 2023 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2023 at 3:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That’s an awful lot, but why would it matter what Alexander Hamilton said…and is it more important to you that you got the name of your moral system right…or that the assertions you made about your moral system were true? If they were false…..would you abandon your god?
It’s not an issue of authority, at least not for me or anyone who posits an objective morality. If what was right was determined by any Authority- divine or otherwise, you’re asserting a relative or subjective morality. Is that how you think moral statements work? That whatever X with the greatest authority determines what is right and what is wrong? I disagree- but you’re certainly free to believe as much yourself.
In an objective morality, things are right or wrong regardless of what any authority says, and regardless of whatever reason (or non reason) that authority has for asserting itself.
It’s not an issue of authority, at least not for me or anyone who posits an objective morality. If what was right was determined by any Authority- divine or otherwise, you’re asserting a relative or subjective morality. Is that how you think moral statements work? That whatever X with the greatest authority determines what is right and what is wrong? I disagree- but you’re certainly free to believe as much yourself.
In an objective morality, things are right or wrong regardless of what any authority says, and regardless of whatever reason (or non reason) that authority has for asserting itself.
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