Nietzsche: Morality Essay
Morality Essay
Have you ever asked yourself where your conscience comes from? The feeling that takes a hold of you when you do what you feel is wrong. This feeling is almost like a consequence when you tell a lie or commit a crime. Your conscience helps you sort out the good and bad and feels your mind with sorrow when you see a sad story on the news or gives you the initiative to donate money to a contribution. But where does it come from. Is it something you are naturally born with, taught over time or given to you by a higher power? This argument leads to the existence of moral values by many philosophers including William Lane Craig. One of his excerpts argues that if there is an existence of moral values, which some people agree, then there is the existence of God. He explains, "God provides the best explanation for objective moral values in the world. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist." Craig says that even the most influential atheists of our time agree with this argument but then in order to avoid God's existence they deny that objective moral values exist. One of these atheists is J.L. Mackie who along with others explains that moral sense is a natural product of biological and social evolution. And the great philosopher Nietzsche is also one to disagree with Craig's argument. However, even though Nietzsche and other philosophers provide many examples that help go against this argument, William Lone Craig has proven that the existence of moral values exist and therefore proves the existence of God. To help prove this argument, you must first take a look the other side from the important, well know philosopher Nietzsche himself. Nietzsche gives many reasons that lead to the nonexistence of God in his book "The Nietzsche Reader". One idea explains that everything everyone does is just natural and has nothing to do with God. He also would react to this argument by explaining that values change and that morality is a
Have you ever asked yourself where your conscience comes from? The feeling that takes a hold of you when you do what you feel is wrong. This feeling is almost like a consequence when you tell a lie or commit a crime. Your conscience helps you sort out the good and bad and feels your mind with sorrow when you see a sad story on the news or gives you the initiative to donate money to a contribution. But where does it come from. Is it something you are naturally born with, taught over time or given to you by a higher power? This argument leads to the existence of moral values by many philosophers including William Lane Craig. One of his excerpts argues that if there is an existence of moral values, which some people agree, then there is the existence of God. He explains, "God provides the best explanation for objective moral values in the world. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist." Craig says that even the most influential atheists of our time agree with this argument but then in order to avoid God's existence they deny that objective moral values exist. One of these atheists is J.L. Mackie who along with others explains that moral sense is a natural product of biological and social evolution. And the great philosopher Nietzsche is also one to disagree with Craig's argument. However, even though Nietzsche and other philosophers provide many examples that help go against this argument, William Lone Craig has proven that the existence of moral values exist and therefore proves the existence of God. To help prove this argument, you must first take a look the other side from the important, well know philosopher Nietzsche himself. Nietzsche gives many reasons that lead to the nonexistence of God in his book "The Nietzsche Reader". One idea explains that everything everyone does is just natural and has nothing to do with God. He also would react to this argument by explaining that values change and that morality is a