If there's no God, is anything really wrong?
Almost nobody can actually live as though cruelty is merely unpopular, and a real right and wrong is far easier to explain if goodness is rooted in someone's character than if it is only something our species happens to feel.
THE CLAIM
Real right and wrong is easier to explain if goodness has a source.
- 1Start with the case nobody argues aboutWitness
- 2The argument in three sentencesManuscript
- 3The quarrel testWitness
- 4Paul made the same observation, much earlierThe text
WHERE IT STANDS
The intuition is near-universal; its best explanation is a person.
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