A Map With A Few of My Paths to Objective Morality

April 19, 2013 By 14 Comments

Yesterday I kicked off a series called “Paths to Objective Morality”. In response to commenters vigorously challenging my choice of vocabulary in calling morality “objective”, I decided to lay out my justification for my word choice systematically and to explain how it will be justified in each of the major components of my overall account of [...]

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Paths to Moral Objectivity: Pragmatics

April 18, 2013 By 19 Comments

On this blog I regularly declare myself for “objective morality”. But what I mean by the term is often misunderstood. My views are a bit idiosyncratic. People typically need to read a handful of the right posts to get a full picture so that they can situate the context for any one post. Those who [...]

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Are Divine Command Theory And Objective Morality Mutually Exclusive Concepts?

June 9, 2010 By 3 Comments

Luke Muelhauser confronts William Lane Craig with the inconsistency between his divine command interpretation of morality, according to which things are moral or immoral as solely determined by God’s calling them as such, on the one hand, and his insistence that in this way God is the source of “objective morality”: But let us say [...]

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