Post tagged with objectivism

  • Objective aesthetic judgments and naturalism

    June 04th, 201001:54 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    I am in the midst of reviewing John Loftus's book The Christian Delusion but I am also permitted the occasional excursus. After all, it's my blog and who are you to tell me what to do? (Sorry, that's a bit too aggressive. It's been a busy morning and I'm a bit on edge.) Anyway, I digress. In the last thread the question of aesthetics has aris...

  • The games people play with morality

    October 21st, 200902:48 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    Over the last few posts I have been arguing that morality is objective and that naturalistic (i.e. non-supernaturalist) views of the world are unable to ground morality as objective. Thus, insofar as we agree that we do in fact know certain moral facts as objective, absolute facts (e.g. it is a fact that it is wrong to torture infants for fun as su...

  • Alien genocide and other moral horrors

    October 18th, 200909:01 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    The Nazi alien thought experiment showcased in "Rapist insects and Nazi Aliens from Planet X-1951" was intended to demonstrate the implausibilty with species-relative analyses of morality. I am happy to report that the last fifty hours have seen a number of interesting comments by way of response, but nothing that hinders the ar...

  • The Moral of the Story: On the Relativity of Strangeness (Part 2)

    October 15th, 200911:25 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    Ahh the relativity of strangeness. That which doesn't fit with one's presuppositions is suddenly suspect, brazenly bizarre. So it seems to be is the reaction when some atheists countenance the existence of a moral law that exists objectively regardless of the existence of any and all finite creatures. AnAtheist.net's comments on my post "If there ...
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