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To: mlo

You can still be the first person in human history to explain an intelligible rationale for the ontological basis of individual human worth in the absence of a transcendent Moral Law Giver.

If you are able.


15 posted on 07/05/2018 11:56:47 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith

As stated, apparently, by Dostoyevski and echoed by Sartre:

“If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.”


17 posted on 07/05/2018 11:59:02 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: mlo

Again, the target here is to be able to articulate the ontological basis of individual human worth.

If God doesn’t exist.


18 posted on 07/05/2018 12:00:27 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith
"You can still be the first person in human history to explain an intelligible rationale for the ontological basis of individual human worth in the absence of a transcendent Moral Law Giver."

Hardly. Like the question hasn't been answered a thousand times already.

36 posted on 07/05/2018 12:48:26 PM PDT by mlo
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