"Objective morality" refers to the concept that there are moral truths or principles that exist independently of personal opinions or cultural beliefs. It means that certain actions or behaviors can be considered right or wrong regardless of individual perspectives.
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Second, if a god commands that something is so, because there is an objective truth of the matter, then there is
objective morality because it is universal and binding.
If you're
discussing objective morality versus subjective morality, then why not be honest and straightforward when you use the terms «right» and «wrong».
People can go about their day - to - day lives without worrying about consciousness or the grounding
of objective morality and dignity, but can we really live without hope and meaning?
nah, so
if objective morality is dependent upon the existence of a god, it is every bit as highly unlikley as the existence of a god.
It certainly does not provide grounds for
objective morality as he redefines what the word «good» means according to what he thinks good is.
Remember, if you can claim one thing and only one thing is objectively morally evil or good,
then objective morality exists as an opinion, because it has not been demonstrated to actually exist.
Objective morality does not exist... --------------- If that's true, then no one has any grounds to call Hitler a bad person, or that he even did anything bad or wrong at all.
Unfortunately, Buttiglione's interpretation of the distinction
between objective morality and subjective imputability, a distinction emphasized and developed in Amoris Laetitia, is misleading.
What gives tf the right to try and impose his version of reality and
objective morality on the rest of humanity?
But it can hardly be doubted that such a state of actually invincible error in moral questions exists also in society or in social groups in which the individual participates, so that his power of moral discernment does not go beyond a certain point, which, through no fault of his own, falls
below objective morality.
colin: «nah, so
if objective morality is dependent upon the existence of a god, it is every bit as highly unlikley as the existence of a god.
In God's nature, a Christian can
ground objective morality and say that things like child molestation and the Holocaust are objectively morally evil.