Mavrodes on the Nature of Arguments and the Epistemology of Moral Arguments for the Existence of God

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
Mohammad Saeed Akbari Dehghan 1
Naeme Poormohammadi 2
1 PhD Student in Religious Studies ,Faculty of Religions ,University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran
2 Assistant professor at Department of Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran
10.30497/prr.2018.2326
Abstract
In the classical tradition of arguments for the existence of God, a number of moral arguments have been proposed. Parallel to these arguments, moral arguments against the existence of God emerged. Here a question presents itself: does the existence of moral arguments against God discredit the ones for God and make the belief of theists unjustified? Our claim is that we can propose a new notion of argumentation which shields theistic moral arguments existence against atheistic ones. In this research, we have listed eight atheistic moral arguments and modified them with respect to Mavrodes’s theory of the nature of arguments; thereby proving that the theist is able to defend his moral arguments and that his belief is still justified. We are of course aware of the fact that this revision of the nature of arguments indicates the justification of atheistic arguments in their own respective viewpoints.
Keywords
Theistic Moral Arguments
Theistic Arguments
Mavrodes
The Nature of Argument
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