Posted: Aug 26, 2013 11:57 pm
Mick wrote:Spinozasgalt wrote:Mick, do you have a link to where Craig explains the sort of constitution he has in mind and its workings when he says that God's commands constitute our moral duties or obligations? I thought I had read this and that it'd be easy to find, but I'm having some trouble here.
He has a debate book entitled something like 'is Goodness without God enough?'. There he defends his moral argument against several prominent philosophers. Check there. If it is not there, search his website. That constitution is different from identity is easy enough to see, but it is not so easy to see when we are talking more abstract things.
I'll have to review his debate book for more info.
I did a search on ReasonableFaith.org, but couldn't find Craig going into it beyond the basic view he's taken. I will take a look at that book though. There's a nice essay from Mark C. Murphy in there, so I'll pick it up anyway. I know there's been a bit of a backlash against what are known as constitution views of DCT lately, because it's alleged that they either collapse into the identity view or are in need of something extra that's very particular and elusive (possibly Robert M. Adams takes the identity view to avoid these worries). So I guess I'm just interested to see how Craig would shake off these sorts of thorns or if his view is suitably different so that it avoids getting tangled with them.
I don't think he would overlook this, but the odd thing is that I haven't seen any of his critics press him on it.