♣ Ace of Clubs
the moral, experiential and pragmatic family
The Argument from the Objectivity of the Moral Law
Hastings Rashdall
The Theory of Good and Evil
DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.
- Argument form
- Disjunctive syllogism (law exists in a human mind or in another; not in any human mind)
- Concludes to
- Intelligent agent (a mind other than any human mind, in which the moral law exists)
- Premise ground
- Metaphysical (a moral law can exist nowhere but in a mind)
- Modal strength
- Actual
- What it licenses
- Period
- Twentieth Century (1907)
- Tradition
- Idealist (British personal)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
The Theory of Good and Evil2015.86351.The-Theory-Of-Good-And-Evil-Second-Edition-Vol-Ii.pdf - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument - A principal objection
Read the objection in full
This formulation is ours, composed from the primary source and compressed to fit the card; the argument admits of other statements. Objections have been made to every argument in the deck; where one is linked above, it is chosen by us, not written by us.
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