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One way in which the classical form of the problem of evil could be seen as a problem is because surely an omnibenevolent and omnipotent God would not allow for His creation to experience evil and suffering....

Moral realism is a metaethical view composed of a semantic and a metaphysical claim. The semantic claim, cognitivism about moral discourse, holds that moral judgements are robustly truth-apt. The metaphysica...

The claim that knowledge of God can be known through reason alone is highly flawed. This is due to the fact that our reason, or a priori knowledge, cannot be empirically verified. Therefore, by only acceptin...

On a simple level, utilitarianism is the belief that the morally right thing to do in any situation is to maximise the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. A good example of this idea in pra...

One appealing feature of emotivism is that it may promote a tolerant and accepting attitude towards moral diversity. Hence, according to emotivism as moral judgments are nothing more than ‘pure expressions o...