This moral philosophy maintains that there is no God, yet there are objective moral facts that exist necessarily. The idea is parallel to the atheist’s view of the laws of nature: they simply exist, there is …

will conclude the paper by exploring a number of objections that have been raised against the moral argument.

12. Document from Ethics in Society Program Website: Examples of Moral Argument Each of the subheadings below describes a different approach to moral argumentation. The excerpts that follow …

In striving to reach the correct answer to moral questions we must guard against extreme partiality — our moral judgments should be free from bigotry, prejudice, and favoritism.

Afirming both of the premises of the moral argument, Dawkins is thus, on pain of irrationality, committed to the argument’s conclusion, namely, that God exists.

We are supposed to say that a particular action is bad because it is a case of stealing, and because stealing is wrong; but if we ask why stealing is wrong, we can only be presented with another …

The moral argument for the existence of God tries to show that moral values must be objective and universal to make any sense. And if moral values are objective, the source must be a transcendent, …