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  If one person says "McDonald's hamburgers are tasty" and another person says "No, they taste awful," arguably the ...

Some people think that the fact that people cannot agree about the issue of abortion is good evidence that moral values are relative or subj...

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A redated post. The is from Mark Nelson's paper Naturalistic Ethics and the Argument from Evil,' Faith and Philosophy, vol. 8, no....

What's interesting to me here is the extent to which commitment to rationality is linked to a belief in moral objectivity. A believer in...

One way of testing whether something is objective is whether the law of noncontradiction applies to it. For example, if I say "The cat ...

With respect to Lewis’s moral argument, poses some questions about how Lewis structured the moral argument, but I think that we could consid...

What it means for something to be objective is for it to be the sort of thing where if there are opposite positions taken, the law of noncon...

A redated post. Question: What is the difference between a theory of moral values according to which morals are objective and a theory of va...

If you and I disagree as to whether the earth is round, or whether the earth has been in existence for millions of years or was created 6000...

A redated post. Contrary to what you may have learned in grade school, the terms "fact" and "opinion" are far from clear...

First of all, I have an argument addressed to people who are moral relativists, but who nonetheless think there are real human rights. That ...

• What is it for something to be an objective matter? An objective matter is about which it is possible to be mistaken. Let’s take ...

A redated post. I. The argument from Implied Practice 1. If ethics is subjective, then we should expect people to recognize that actions whi...

When you google "moral objectivity," my entries on this blog come up second.

This links to the text of the Dred Scott decision. It was accepted by large portions of our society. Was this a moral error, or is morality...

Are there more than this? These were what I could come up with. I. The argument from disagreement: 1. People and cultures disagree extensive...

This is a redated post C. S. Lewis’s arguments for moral objectivity in Mere Christianity First, an account of subjective vs. objective. Som...