The Moral Argument: Kant
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- The Moral Argument: Kant
- Objective moral law that reason tells us we must obey.
- Requires us to obtain the highest good, summum bonum.
- Only obliged to do something if it is possible to achieve.
- Cannot obtain the summum bonum without God to assist us.
- We are oblidged to achieve the summum bonum therefore God must exist.
- A rational person has an overwhelming sense of moral duty.
- CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
- 'Does the fact we have an idea about right and wrong mean that God exists?'
- 'Is there any point being moral if God doesn't exist?'
- 'Does morality depend on God?'
- Kant rejected all Cosmological and Teleological arguements.
- God's existence was not a matter of human knowledge.
- To explain morality it must include the belief that God exists.
- Objective moral law that reason tells us we must obey.
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