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Dr. Peter Kreeft of the philosophy department of Boston College, speaks on the issue of “If Good and Evil Exist, God Exists” in new video for Prager University, an outgrowth of talk show host Dennis Prager’s effort to make some of the finest, most original thinkers accessible to everyone.
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Reps: 91,770,873,885,632,576 (power: 91,770,873,885,637) | | | He didn't address moral nihilism. His argument assumes objective morality. The nihilist doesn't believe in morality; they believe humans personally makeup their own and whatever the popular one is the "objective" one.
It's a great argument if the person isn't willing to give up objective morality, but you'd be surprised how quickly people, especially philosophers, will drop it in favor of their preferences. Also, I'd like to see a utilitarian response to the slavery position.
It's also interesting to see a new approach for the proof of God's existence, even if it doesn't hold much philosophical water.
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13th December 2012, 02:02 PM
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Reps: 619,951,127,609,553,536 (power: 619,951,127,609,564) | | Originally Posted by Chany  He didn't address moral nihilism. His argument assumes objective morality. The nihilist doesn't believe in morality; they believe humans personally makeup their own and whatever the popular one is the "objective" one.
It's a great argument if the person isn't willing to give up objective morality, but you'd be surprised how quickly people, especially philosophers, will drop it in favor of their preferences. Also, I'd like to see a utilitarian response to the slavery position.
It's also interesting to see a new approach for the proof of God's existence, even if it doesn't hold much philosophical water.
I find people will argue that there is no objective morality, but in general they don't walk the walk so to speak.
That is probably less true of philosophers, but in general most people have things they consider to be basically morally reprehensible. They thing moral relativism sounds nice but they haven't really thought out the implications.
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Subjective morality means you can never criticize any group or person for what they do and view as right. According to subjective morality, everyone is on equal moral and ethical footing; there is no way to ever delcare something wrong as you have no authority to or any claim to back it up other than personal preference.
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Reps: 103,304,426,856,538,528 (power: 103,304,426,856,543) | | Originally Posted by Chany Subjective morality means you can never criticize any group or person for what they do and view as right. According to subjective morality, everyone is on equal moral and ethical footing; there is no way to ever delcare something wrong as you have no authority to or any claim to back it up other than personal preference.
Lacking a belief in objective morality really doesn't mean much beyond believing there is no source of inerrant morals.
It doesn't mean you can't criticise others for what you personally think/feel is immoral, nor try and convince them why you think that way.
I think a bit of nihilism is being mixed in here...
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Lacking a belief in objective morality really doesn't mean much beyond believing there is no source of inerrant morals.
It doesn't mean you can't criticise others for what you personally think/feel is immoral, nor try and convince them why you think that way.
I think a bit of nihilism is being mixed in here...
On what grounds can a person criticize another's morals besides through personal feelings?
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Reps: 103,304,426,856,538,528 (power: 103,304,426,856,543) | | Originally Posted by Chany On what grounds can a person criticize another's morals besides through personal feelings?
Morals aren't just based on feelings.
They can be based on things like capacity of an action to harm, fairness, equality, and empathy generally.
I understand most of those things are subjective to a degree.
You can criticise someone's morals for not considering such factors.
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