Is there a way to prove objective morality?
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Baltazorg
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Is there a way to prove objective morality?
I was wondering if anyone could present valid arguments for objective rather than subjective morals.
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29qr63
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Re: Is there a way to prove objective morality?
No. All morals resolve to opinions. They are merely concepts formed by biased subjective brains.
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Re: Is there a way to prove objective morality?
Actually, this topic has been discussed quite a bit here. Start with this.
John 5:24
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
-Edward R Murrow
St. Richard the Sarcastic--The Patron Saint of Irony
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Re: Is there a way to prove objective morality?
I think that it is very hard to separate a moral from the society culture that it is influence by ( or vice-versa) , so to a certain degree all morals are subjective.
That said, there is a universal view that morals DO exist and there is a universal view that doing something harmful to a person is bad, so in that regard, there seems to be a Objective ( absolute) moral.
That said, there is a universal view that morals DO exist and there is a universal view that doing something harmful to a person is bad, so in that regard, there seems to be a Objective ( absolute) moral.
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Re: Is there a way to prove objective morality?
Prove it!!29qr63 wrote:No. All morals resolve to opinions. They are merely concepts formed by biased subjective brains.
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Re: Is there a way to prove objective morality?
This question is directly connected to the question of whether God exists. If there is a God and he has given us standards of right and wrong then his commands constitute objective morality. If there isn't then there can be no such thing as objective morality.
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Re: Is there a way to prove objective morality?
Yes...theophilus wrote:This question is directly connected to the question of whether God exists. If there is a God and he has given us standards of right and wrong then his commands constitute objective morality. If there isn't then there can be no such thing as objective morality.
Summed up by humanities need to know right from wrong and God's intervention to define right and wrong to satisfy the need...
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Re: Is there a way to prove objective morality?
There is no proof that objective moral arguments exist only that if God does exist then they do.Baltazorg wrote:I was wondering if anyone could present valid arguments for objective rather than subjective morals.