Theist and Atheist Scholars Discuss the Meaning and Value of Life

Benjamin Watkins, Hṛdayānanda dāsa Goswāmī · Lecture · 1h 22m· Jun 2022

Vaishnava scholar Howard Resnick (HD Goswami) and atheist philosopher Ben Watkins both take the second horn of the Euthyphro dilemma and agree value is objective, then split over whether value needs God: Watkins deploys Laplace and the shopping-cart test to show morality runs without the hypothesis, while Resnick answers with Callicles' tyrant, the how/why distinction, and a God too free to be the conclusion of an argument.

axiology · axiology and value theory · comparative religion · conception of god · dharma · epistemology · Hare Krishna · metaphysics · objective morality · philosophy of religion · spirituality · theism vs atheism


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