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    Knowledge of God rooted in moral experience does not requ... — Carmelics
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    Knowledge of God rooted in moral experience does not require a moral argument

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    • 1.Moral experience can provide direct awareness of God
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    • 2.Direct experiential knowledge does not require argumentative justification
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    • 1.Moral experience requires interpretive frameworks to identify its object as 'God' rather than conscience, duty, or social pressure.
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    • 2.Any interpretive framework that identifies moral experience as experience of God constitutes an implicit argument with suppressed premises.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claim that such knowledge is argument-free conflates psychological immediacy with epistemic independence from inference.
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    • 1.Kant's critical epistemology establishes that raw experience underdetermines its own conceptual content without prior categorical organization.
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    • 2.The specific content 'moral lawgiver' or 'divine ground of obligation' is a theoretical posit, not a brute datum of moral phenomenology.
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    • 3.Alston's own Reformed epistemology concedes that doxastic practices require communal formation, implying argument-laden background conditions.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    How can such an awareness be converted into full-fledged belief in God? One way of doing this would be to help the person gain the skills needed to recognize moral laws as what they are, as divine commands or divine laws. If moral laws are experienced, then moral experience could be viewed as a kind of religious experience or at least a proto-religious experience. Perhaps someone who has experience of God in this way does not need a moral argument (or any kind of argument) to have a reasonable b
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    The specific content 'moral lawgiver' or 'divine ground of obligation' is a theo...
    Therefore, the claim that such knowledge is argument-free conflates psychologica...
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