William Lane Craig Utterly Destroys Sam Harris: Craigs knock-down argument

Описание: William Lane Craig defeats atheist Sam Harris and destroys Harris' 'moral landscape' with one knock down argument, which Sam Harris FAILS to respond to.

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WLC quote from this video:

"On the next to last page of his book, Harris makes the telling admission that if people like rapists, liars, and thieves could be just as happy as good people, then his moral landscape would no longer be a moral landscape; rather it would just be a continuum of well-being, whose peaks are occupied by good and evil people alike (p. 190).

What's interesting about this is that earlier in the book Harris observed that about three million Americans are psychopathic, that is to say, they don't care about the mental states of others. On the contrary, they enjoy inflicting pain on other people (pp. 97-99).

That implies that there is a possible world which we can conceive in which the continuum of human well-being is not a moral landscape. The peaks of well-being could be occupied by evil people. But that entails that in the actual world the continuum of well-being and the moral landscape are not identical either. For identity is a necessary relation. There is no possible world in which some entity A is not identical to A. So if there is any possible world in which A is not identical to B, it follows that A is not in fact identical to B.

Since it's possible that human well-being and moral goodness are not identical, it follows necessarily that human well-being and moral goodness are not the same, as Harris has asserted.

It's not often in philosophy that one finds a knock-down argument against a position, but we seem to have one here. By granting that it's possible that the continuum of well-being is not identical to the moral landscape, Harris' view becomes logically incoherent."



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