Moral Values and the Idea of God
W. R. Sorley, Moral Values and the Idea of God (Gifford Lectures, 1918)
W. R. Sorley, Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge
Careful to a fault, and honest about the fault: the moral argument alone does not close the case, and it says so.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 200
- Stat total
- 336
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Cited for this book
Sorley delivered these Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen during the First World War and published them in 1918. The argument is narrow and made carefully: moral values are objective — they bind whether or not anyone obeys or even notices them — and an authority that holds like that has to belong to a Mind, whose nature is goodness. He does not claim it proves God by itself. He claims it rules out any account of the world with nothing but matter in it, and leaves the rest to the other arguments.
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| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
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| 1 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 44 | Not Along One Line | Rationality | Argument | 68 | 100% | 20 |
| 46 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 48 | It Held Before You Saw It | Ethics | Argument | 82 | 100% | 15 |
| 52 | The Order of a Supreme Mind | Ethics | Argument | 92 | 100% | 10 |