The Moral Argument for God Proves Nothing (Part 2)
Channel: Venaloid
Date: 07/11/2021

Last time, we addressed premise 1 of the moral argument, which states that atheism and moral realism are incompatible. Today, we will address premise 2, which states that moral realism is true (which then leads to the conclusion that atheism is therefore false, and that at least one god must therefore exist). My goal in this video will not be to argue that moral realism is necessarily false, but simply to argue that the ways in which people *defend* moral realism in this context (theists AND atheists) simply do not work.

Part 1 of this series: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CmxrwFvSd0

Intuitionism in Ethics
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism-ethics/ 

Can atheists be moral?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYZ1ByzWY9U

Moral Values & Atheism | Proof for God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQQA_XAHFY

What is the Moral Argument for the Existence of God? SeanMcDowell.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTMN7NEl1SU

Ought from an Is
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2185589 
https://thegodlesstheist.com/2014/10/02/how-to-get-an-ought-from-an-is/ 

Optical Illusion
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/78/b9/d0/78b9d0ddfa87424c30f65917fe733a72.jpg

Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/all?aos=28

Moral Philosophy Is Not Body Armor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32xCJKGCRYQ

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00:00 - Review of Part 1
00:59 - Goal of this video
01:43 - Atheists who defend moral realism
04:08 - Atheists who reject moral realism
04:48 - Defense #1: Negating the is-ought gap
06:07 - Defense #2: Intuition
09:03 - Defense #3: Widespread agreement
13:13 - Defense #4: Rebuking other cultures
15:09 - Evolution is not morality
18:10 - Conclusion

Music is "Pure Attitude", by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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