A Moral Argument for God's Existence, The Peircean Perspective, and an Interpretive Scheme for the Success of the Twelve Steps

dc.contributor.authorModaff, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-21T17:41:30Z
dc.date.available2020-12-21T17:41:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-30
dc.description.abstractPhilosopher 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/6357
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity Honors College Middle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subjectCollege of Liberal Artsen_US
dc.subjectphilosophyen_US
dc.subjectCharles Peirceen_US
dc.subjectethicsen_US
dc.subjectmeta-ethicsen_US
dc.subjectmoralityen_US
dc.subjectmetaphysicsen_US
dc.subjectreligionen_US
dc.subjectalcoholismen_US
dc.subjectAlcoholics Anonymousen_US
dc.titleA Moral Argument for God's Existence, The Peircean Perspective, and an Interpretive Scheme for the Success of the Twelve Stepsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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