(October 6, 2012 at 8:50 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Sure it can not be by an argument. But does it have to be? This presupposing that we don't have knowledge of objective morality, honour, and greatness, and that it needs proof. But the nature of these things are that of a properly basic experience of the self. Just because it can't demonstrated it's true by an argument, doesn't mean it can't be known.
Perhaps. But that does mean that it isn't demonstrable to someone who doesn't agree that these things are properly basic. While I do agree that those things subjectively exists, I do not find them to be objective.
So you're going to have a hard time using this argument who doesn't already substantially agree with you to begin with. That is to say, it isn't persuasive.
