Hong Kong Liberal Religious Forum

In Defense of Non-Natural, Non-Theistic Moral Realism
by Erik J. Wielenberg
Faith and Philosophy, Volume 26, number 1 (January 2009), pages 23-41.
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The moral argument for theism tries to show the existence of God is necessary to explain or ground certain features of morality. Wielenberg focuses on the version of this argument that holds moral realism is unsustainable without God. He suggests, on the contrary, that moral realism is no less plausible for an atheist. His strategy is to show certain arguments theists raise against atheistic moral realism apply with equal force to their own position. ...