%0 Journal Article
%T The Autonomy of Morals. Two Analytic Arguments
%A Adrian Paul Iliescu
%J Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
%D 2010
%I Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies
%X The theist thesis that any true ethics must be a religious one is criticized from two different angles; it is shown that: (i) in order to avoid divine voluntarism, theism uses a supposition the acceptance of which makes arguments against autonomous ethics un- acceptable, for they inevitably beg the question; (ii) it assumes a kind of moral foun- dationalism which is, according to some Wittgensteinean arguments, utterly superfluous; the idea that any authoritative ethics needs the absolute authority of God can thus be shown to be unjustified.
%K autonomy of ethics
%K moral truth
%K convention
%K foundationalism
%K moral authority
%K moral theism
%K rigid moral designators
%K theist exclusivism
%U http://jsri.ro/ojs/index.php/jsri/article/view/23