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    Moral knowledge provides some support for theistic belief — Carmelics
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    Moral knowledge provides some support for theistic belief

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    • 1.Moral realism (the view that moral facts are objective) is true
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    • 2.Non-theistic accounts of how moral knowledge is possible face real questions about their plausibility
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    • 3.If non-theistic explanations of moral knowledge are implausible, theism gains explanatory support
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    • 1.Moral knowledge can be fully explained by evolutionary debunking accounts (Sharon Street, Richard Joyce) without invoking objective moral facts.
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    • 2.If moral intuitions are adaptive responses shaped by natural selection, they track reproductive fitness rather than mind-independent moral truths.
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    • 3.Theism therefore inherits the same epistemic burden as moral realism without gaining additional explanatory leverage over the naturalist.
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    • 1.Kant's autonomous grounding of morality in pure practical reason demonstrates that moral knowledge requires no theistic foundation for its justification.
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    • 2.If moral law derives its authority from rational self-legislation rather than divine command, theism becomes explanatorily redundant rather than supportive.
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    • 3.The inference from moral knowledge to theistic belief commits the 'god of the gaps' fallacy by treating unexplained naturalist difficulty as positive theistic evidence.
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    Natural TheologyTruth & Knowledge

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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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    The moral argument from knowledge will not be convincing to anyone who is committed to any form of expressivism or other non-objective metaethical theory, and clearly many philosophers find such views attractive. And there will surely be many philosophers who will judge that if moral objectivism implies theism or requires theism to be plausible, this is a reductio of objectivist views. Furthermore, non-theistic moral philosophers, whether naturalists or non-naturalists, have stories to tell abou
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