Our Sense of Morality
This is the argument brilliantly set out in the first part of
C.S.Lewis' Mere Christianity, and I believe dates
back at least to Aqinas. The argument is that each of us
instinctively know that certain behaviour is "right"
or "wrong", and when we appeal to "right"
or "wrong" we are instinctively acknowledging that
there is a higher power - an arbiter of what is right or wrong.
Predictably, the objection is that this is just another
evolved trait. In response, I way that there are many things
people do, because they feel they are good or right, which
just make no evolutionary sense at all.
I could also wryly add that we all instinctively know that
there is more to it than that!
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