Name: Godless Normative Realism | Erik Wielenberg | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #20
Uploaded: 2024-11-01T17:30:00+00:00
Duration: 1 h 45 min 52 s
Description: 🔍 Overview: This episode with Professor Erik Wielenberg explores objective moral reality and what it looks like if there is, in fact, no God to substantiate it. Erik and Sam also explore various other

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🔍 Overview: This episode with Professor Erik Wielenberg explores objective moral reality and what it looks like if there is, in fact, no God to substantiate it. Erik and Sam also explore various other areas of his book, 'Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe'.

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🗣️ Highlights
[Highlight 1]: How can morality be objective if there isn't a God?
[Highlight 2]: If we don't have free will, can we really make ethical decisions?
[Highlight 3]: What are axiomatic necessary ethical truths, and how are they instantiated?

🕒 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
2:08 - Erik and C.S Lewis
8:34 - Ethic's without God
12:31 - Ethical Facts, Features & Properties
16:59 - Objective Morality: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Facts
21:46 - Objective Discoverable Morality
27:45 - Moral Direction
34:31 - Axiomatic Necessary Ethical Truths
47:18 - Euthyphro's Dilemma
59:47 - Death and Sacrifice
1:06:07 - Free Will and Ethics
1:12:33 - Evil on Naturalism
1:18:05 - Obligations
1:27:58 - Fear and Religion
1:38:06 - Humanism
1:43:38 - Closing Remarks

📚 Episode Resources (affiliate links where possible - thanks!)
Erik's Website: https://sites.google.com/depauw.edu/erik-j-wielenberg/home
Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe by Erik Wielenberg: https://amzn.to/3zHeSy4
A Debate on God and Morality: What is the Best Account of Objective Moral Values and Duties? by Erik Wielenberg & William Lane Craig: https://amzn.to/3Y07rva
God and the Reach of Reason: C. S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell by Erik Wielenberg: https://amzn.to/3zwOhUw
William Lane Craig v Erik Wielenberg | "God & Morality" | NC State - Feb 2018: https://youtu.be/xHhmuqBW6Dw?si=_SaaBU65qBPTyVp1

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