The Moral Argument Still Works: Response to Recent Critiques
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The Importance of Inexplicability
Many atheists say moral truths must be brute. This is a way of saying it's just the way it is, Yevgeny Dostoevsky writes in his book The Brothers Caramatsov. He argues that this kind of easy assumption of moral realism apart from God is at variance with much of historic atheism. In older iterations of atheism,. for example, Jean-Paul Sartre and his famous essay on existentialism rejected attempts by earlier French atheists to retain objective morality without God.
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