#objective morals

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BORN FROM ABOVE. JOHN 3:9-10

BORN FROM ABOVE. JOHN 3:9-10

9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?JOHN 3: 9-10 ESV 9 ἀπεκρίθη Νικόδημος καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Πῶς δύναται ταῦτα γενέσθαι; 10 ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Σὺ εἶ ὁ διδάσκαλος τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ταῦτα οὐ γινώσκεις;JOHN 3: 9-10 SBLGNT Nicodemus’ incredulous question, ‘How can this happen?’…

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Watch "Self Righteous" on YouTube

Watch “Self Righteous” on YouTube

Atheist seem to live within a realm that defies the existence of others. Dictating self righteous pious condemnation against any sense of reference apart from their own.It is a world view that is incoherent and obscure and only exist within those whose own depraved existence is only for self and nothing more.Ironically, the loudest noise maker in any crowd when other practice their self righteous…

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Edward Feser on Grounding Morality

"The bottom line is that by abandoning formal and final causes, modern philosophy necessarily denied itself any objective basis for morality.  If nothing is objectively for anything - if nothing has any inherent goal, end, or purpose - then reason is not objectively 'for' anything either, including the pursuit of the good.  Hence there cannot possibly be any way of grounding morality rationally.  And if there are no essences or forms in the sense affirmed by the classical realists (whether Platonic, Aristotelian or Scholastic), then there is no sense to be made of the good as an objective feature of reality anyway.  The good becomes a function of our subjective preferences, desires, sentiments, or 'intuitions', and reason is 'for' whatever we want it to be for, which may or may not include the pursuit of what traditionally has been called 'morality.'  There is just nothing else for the good or for reason to be if one follows the mechanistic line.  Like causation, or free will, or knowledge, or the concept of a person, or the idea of natural human rights, morality in general becomes an illusion, a 'projection' or convenient fiction at best, when one follows through consistently the implications of the moderns' anti-Aristotelian revolution.  Indeed, insofar as personhood and free will are themselves necessary prerequisites to morality, the very possibility of a rational system of ethics is triply undermined by the moderns."

- Edward Feser, The Last Superstition, pp. 219-220