A Moral Argument for God's Existence, The Peircean Perspective, and an Interpretive Scheme for the Success of the Twelve Steps
A Moral Argument for God's Existence, The Peircean Perspective, and an Interpretive Scheme for the Success of the Twelve Steps
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2020-11-30
Authors
Modaff, Andrew
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University Honors College Middle Tennessee State University
Abstract
Philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig is a well-known proponent of
moral arguments for God’s existence. In the course of arguing for his own formulation of
a moral argument in his seminal work Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and
Apologetics, Dr. Craig makes critical mistakes that unveil deeper problematic
assumptions in his thinking about morality. The Euthyphro Dilemma looms large over
Craig’s arguments, and he fails to overcome it. These shortcomings are expounded in
Chapter I and offered a remedy in Chapter II in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.
His pragmatism gives us much more adequate, workable conceptions of morality and
ethics than Craig offers. Chapter III illustrates the advantages of Peirce over Craig in
application by showing that the conceptual framework of the Alcoholics Anonymous
recovery program can be understood as a way of talking about the Peircean conceptual
framework, but not the Craigean framework.
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College of Liberal Arts,
philosophy,
Charles Peirce,
ethics,
meta-ethics,
morality,
metaphysics,
religion,
alcoholism,
Alcoholics Anonymous