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+ | ===== Moral Nihilism? ===== | ||
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+ | No morality? =Moral Nihilism | ||
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+ | Definition: The person who believes there are no right and wrong in ANY case. | ||
+ | e.g., lynching blacks historically, | ||
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+ | Fun fact: People aren’t really moral nihilists (under normal conditions i.e., not being a psychopath). E.g. try cutting them off in line in the grocery store--they will suddenly react as if morality exists... | ||
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+ | However...This does not mean that you will be able to persuade everyone. | ||
+ | This is the “ultimate difficulty” in dealing with relativists and/or nihilists. | ||
+ | -> Just as you can deny your sense experience, so you can deny your moral experience. | ||
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+ | There //is// a right and wrong, and therefore moral relativism is false | ||
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+ | > “…the problem is that objective values do exist, and deep down we all know it. There' | ||
+ | -William Lane Craig, //Does God Exist?// | ||
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+ | **I am worried: If I can’t prove morals exist, should I believe in them?** | ||
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+ | “…God can be invisibly and inaudibly present, and the fact that the world cannot see him does not prove very much.” | ||
+ | -Kierkegaard, | ||
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+ | Maybe this can help us as pro-lifers: //Moral experience// | ||
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+ | (Think about great literature here, Jonas seeing colour, Winston seeing life beyond Big Brother, Ivan Ilyich realizing death, Faust realizing the deadliness of submitting to evil, et cetera; and think about history here, Mother Teresa saw the intrinsic value among the lowest and poorest human beings, Martin Luther King saw equality when no one else did, Maximillian Kolbe gave his life out of love when no one else would step in to save the Death Camp prisoner; think about **Jesus** here) | ||
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