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🗓️ 17 October 2022
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0:00.0 | Look at an article by Adam Lloyd Johnson who co-authored a book on God and morality with |
0:16.0 | you. |
0:17.0 | He debate on God and morality. |
0:19.4 | What is the best account of objective moral values and duties? |
0:24.4 | And he says in this article, the moral argument is often presented as follows, one, there |
0:30.5 | are objective moral truths, two, God provides the best explanation for objective moral truths |
0:38.6 | and three, therefore, God exists. |
0:42.3 | That's not usually how you presented Bill, but comment on that syllogism if you would |
0:47.4 | please. |
0:48.4 | Formulation I usually give, Kevin, is a deductive argument that goes like this. |
0:54.4 | If God does not exist, then objective moral values and duties do not exist, premise |
1:01.6 | two, but objective moral values and duties do exist from which it follows three, therefore, |
1:08.2 | God exists. |
1:09.7 | Now Adam prefers an ab-ductive formulation rather than a deductive formulation of the moral |
1:17.8 | argument. |
1:19.0 | This is the version that's championed, for example, by David Baggett, who is one of the |
1:24.0 | principal defenders of the moral argument today. |
1:27.7 | And basically, what it does is it begins with the accepted fact that objective moral values |
1:35.9 | exist. |
1:37.6 | It's taken as common property for both sides of the argument that they accept that. |
1:43.9 | And then the argument is, well, what's the best explanation for objective moral values? |
1:49.3 | And the secularist will attempt to give one account of objective moral values and duties, |
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